What is another word for miserly?
715 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ m_ˈaɪ_z_ə_l_ɪ], [ mˈa͡ɪzəlɪ], [ mˈaɪzəlɪ]Synonyms for Miserly:
adj.
•ascetic (adjective)- abstemious,
- abstinent,
- ascetic,
- austere,
- celibate,
- dry,
- franciscan,
- lenten,
- monastic,
- parsimonious,
- penitential,
- repentant,
- severe,
- spartan,
- stark,
- stoic,
- teetotaling,
- trappist,
- hermit-like.
- acquisitive,
- avaricious,
- grasping,
- greedy,
- hoarding,
- mercenary,
- monopolistic,
- possessive,
- rapacious,
- selfish,
- sordid,
- usurious,
- venal,
- Cadging,
- money-grubbing.
- abject,
- avaricious,
- beggarly,
- churlish,
- close,
- covetous,
- grasping,
- ignoble,
- illiberal,
- mean,
- parsimonious,
- penny-pinching,
- penurious,
- skinflint,
- sordid,
- tightfisted,
- ungenerous,
- close-fisted.
- inadequate,
- insufficient,
- poor,
- scarce,
- skimpy,
- sparse,
- Flyspeck,
- deficient,
- meager,
- niggardly,
- scanty,
- stingy.
- baby,
- bantam,
- beggarly,
- compact,
- deficient,
- delicate,
- diminutive,
- dwarfish,
- itty-bitty,
- little,
- microscopic,
- miniature,
- minimal,
- minor,
- minute,
- modest,
- negligible,
- niggardly,
- nugatory,
- paltry,
- petite,
- picayune,
- piddling,
- pocket,
- puny,
- scant,
- scanty,
- scrawny,
- short,
- slight,
- slim,
- small,
- smallish,
- spare,
- sparing,
- teensy,
- teeny,
- teeny-weeny,
- tiny,
- toy,
- trifling,
- ungenerous,
- wee,
- weeny,
- meager,
- stingy.
adv.
•ascetically (adverb)- abstemiously,
- ascetically,
- austerely,
- severely,
- starkly,
- stoically,
- Abstinently,
- Monastically,
- parsimoniously.
adv
•ascetically (adverb)- abstemiously,
- ascetically,
- austerely,
- severely,
- starkly,
- stoically,
- Abstinently,
- Monastically,
- parsimoniously.
- compactly,
- delicately,
- meagerly,
- minimally,
- minutely,
- modestly,
- niggardly,
- punily,
- scantily,
- shortly,
- slightly,
- slimly,
- sparingly,
- stingily,
- Paltrily,
- parsimoniously,
- triflingly,
- deficiently,
- negligibly.
n.
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- careful,
- cheap,
- costive,
- economical,
- niggard,
- thrift,
- tightfisted,
- Pinching,
- close-fisted.
- mean,
- mingy,
- stingy,
- tight,
- ungenerous.
Other synonyms:
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- tightfisted.
- abase,
- abject,
- acquisitiveness,
- adjacent,
- airtight,
- all-devouring,
- avarice,
- average,
- avid,
- avidity,
- base,
- bastardly,
- begrudging,
- belittle,
- besotted,
- blotto,
- bottomless,
- careful,
- chary,
- cheap,
- chinchy,
- chintzy,
- churl,
- churlish,
- close,
- closeness,
- cockeyed,
- compressed,
- conservative,
- contemn,
- costive,
- covetous,
- covetousness,
- crocked,
- cupidity,
- curmudgeonly,
- cut,
- debase,
- decry,
- defy,
- demean,
- denigrate,
- deprecate,
- depreciate,
- desire,
- despise,
- detest,
- devouring,
- dirty,
- disparage,
- disregard,
- economical,
- economy,
- esurient,
- excellent,
- exiguous,
- extortionate,
- fail,
- flout,
- frugality,
- fuddled,
- gluttonous,
- grabby,
- greed,
- greediness,
- grudging,
- hardfisted,
- hateful,
- hedonic,
- hedonistic,
- hidebound,
- hoggish,
- humble,
- ignoble,
- ignore,
- illiberal,
- impoverished,
- inconsiderate,
- infrequent,
- insatiable,
- insatiate,
- insignificant,
- jejune,
- lean,
- limited,
- limitless,
- loaded,
- loathe,
- malice,
- meagre,
- meanness,
- meanspirited,
- measly,
- mingy,
- minimize,
- miser,
- miserable,
- miserliness,
- narrow,
- nasty,
- near,
- nearby,
- niggard,
- omit,
- omnivorous,
- overgreedy,
- parsimony,
- pathetic,
- peddling,
- penurious,
- penuriously,
- pettiness,
- pie-eyed,
- piggish,
- potty,
- provident,
- prudent,
- quenchless,
- rapacity,
- rare,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- save-all,
- saving,
- scattered,
- scoff,
- scorn,
- scotch,
- scrimp,
- scrimpy,
- scrooge,
- scrubby,
- self-indulgent,
- selfishly,
- selfishness,
- shabby,
- skimp,
- skinflint,
- slender,
- sloshed,
- small-minded,
- small-scale,
- soused,
- sprinkled,
- squiffy,
- starvation,
- stiff,
- stinginess,
- stinting,
- straitened,
- strict,
- stringent,
- stunted,
- subsistence,
- swinish,
- taut,
- thin,
- thoughtless,
- thrift,
- tightfisted,
- tightwad,
- tipsy,
- unaccommodating,
- unappeasable,
- uncharitable,
- unpretentious,
- unquenchable,
- unsated,
- unsatisfactory,
- unsatisfied,
- voracious,
- watered,
- watery,
- wedge,
- wet,
- Dwarfed,
- Economizing,
- Gobbling,
- Griping,
- Mean-spirited,
- Pinching,
- Scrimping,
- Skimping,
- Slakeless,
- Unslaked,
- Coveting,
- Stinted,
- unappeased,
- close-fisted,
- moneygrubbing,
- tight-fisted,
- Ungiving,
- Unnutritious,
- money-hungry,
- seldom met with,
- seldom seen.
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Antonyms for Miserly:
adj.
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Other antonyms:
altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, compassionate, extravagant, free, freehanded, generous, good-hearted, greathearted, handsome, hospitable, humanitarian, kindly, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, overgenerous, philanthropic, prodigal, profligate, profuse, selfless, spendthrift, squandering, thriftless, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, wasteful, wasting, Frittering, Unthrifty, splurging.
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n. t.
beneficent, benevolent, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, compassionate, extravagant, free, freehanded, generous, giving, good-hearted, greathearted, handsome, hospitable, huge, humanitarian, lavish, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, openhanded, openhearted, overgenerous, philanthropic, prodigal, profligate, profuse, selfless, spendthrift, squandering, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting, wasteful, wasting, Frittering, Unthrifty, splurging.
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