Definition for Miserly:

• Like a miser; very covetous; avaricious; stingy; sordid; niggardly.

Synonyms for Miserly:

• adj.

  •ascetic (adjective)
  • abstemious,
  • trappist,
  • dry,
  • repentant,
  • parsimonious,
  • celibate,
  • penitential,
  • teetotaling,
  • lenten,
  • severe,
  • austere,
  • franciscan,
  • stoic,
  • spartan,
  • ascetic,
  • monastic,
  • hermit-like,
  • stark,
  • abstinent.
  •avaricious (adjective)
  • mercenary,
  • acquisitive,
  • monopolistic,
  • greedy,
  • venal,
  • Cadging,
  • selfish,
  • usurious,
  • sordid,
  • rapacious,
  • possessive,
  • grasping,
  • money-grubbing,
  • hoarding,
  • avaricious.
  •cheap (adjective)
  • tightfisted,
  • mingy.
  •close (adjective)
  • skinflint,
  • tight-fisted,
  • niggardly.
  •despicable (adjective)
  • shabby.
  •economical (adjective)
  • meager,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • provident.
  •few (adjective)
  • negligible,
  • scanty,
  • little,
  • niggardly,
  • scarce,
  • few,
  • spotty,
  • insufficient,
  • sparse,
  • minimal,
  • minimum.
  •greedy, stingy (adjective)
  • churlish,
  • close,
  • mean,
  • avaricious,
  • illiberal,
  • tightfisted,
  • penny-pinching,
  • penurious,
  • ungenerous,
  • abject,
  • close-fisted,
  • grasping,
  • ignoble,
  • skinflint,
  • covetous,
  • parsimonious,
  • sordid,
  • beggarly.
  •insufficient (adjective)
  • poor,
  • skimpy,
  • Flyspeck,
  • scanty,
  • meager,
  • sparse,
  • stingy,
  • niggardly,
  • insufficient,
  • inadequate,
  • deficient,
  • scarce.
  •mean (adjective)
  • scrimpy,
  • niggard.
  •small (adjective)
  • dwarfish,
  • teeny,
  • compact,
  • ungenerous,
  • deficient,
  • scrawny,
  • picayune,
  • teensy,
  • microscopic,
  • small,
  • miniature,
  • scant,
  • diminutive,
  • paltry,
  • piddling,
  • short,
  • minimal,
  • weeny,
  • smallish,
  • slim,
  • itty-bitty,
  • nugatory,
  • bantam,
  • negligible,
  • minute,
  • pocket,
  • beggarly,
  • modest,
  • trifling,
  • delicate,
  • petite,
  • little,
  • wee,
  • toy,
  • niggardly,
  • stingy,
  • sparing,
  • slight,
  • spare,
  • minor,
  • meager,
  • baby,
  • scanty,
  • tiny,
  • teeny-weeny,
  • puny.
  •stingy (adjective)
  • frugal,
  • ascetic,
  • abstemious,
  • narrow-fisted,
  • Hard-fisted,
  • austere,
  • Pinching,
  • stingy,
  • spartan,
  • meager,
  • close-fisted,
  • cheeseparing,
  • mean,
  • parsimonious,
  • closefisted,
  • petty,
  • thrifty,
  • penny-pinching,
  • close,
  • costive,
  • cheap,
  • tight.
  •sybaritic (adjective)
  • hedonistic,
  • hedonic.
  •tight (adjective)
  • closefisted.

• adv.

  •ascetically (adverb)
  • severely,
  • starkly,
  • abstemiously,
  • stoically,
  • Abstinently,
  • parsimoniously,
  • Monastically,
  • ascetically,
  • austerely.
  •compactly (adverb)
  • punily,
  • compactly,
  • scantily,
  • minutely,
  • triflingly,
  • deficiently,
  • slimly,
  • Paltrily,
  • sparingly,
  • slightly,
  • shortly,
  • minimally,
  • negligibly,
  • modestly,
  • delicately.
  •insufficiently (adverb)
  • insufficiently,
  • inadequately,
  • sparsely,
  • skimpily,
  • scarcely,
  • poorly.
  •stingily (adverb)
  • meagerly,
  • stingily,
  • meanly,
  • frugally,
  • tightly,
  • pettily,
  • thriftily.

• adv

  •ascetically (adverb)
  • severely,
  • starkly,
  • abstemiously,
  • stoically,
  • Abstinently,
  • parsimoniously,
  • Monastically,
  • ascetically,
  • austerely.
  •compactly (adverb)
  • compactly,
  • deficiently,
  • modestly,
  • slimly,
  • shortly,
  • minutely,
  • slightly,
  • triflingly,
  • punily,
  • sparingly,
  • minimally,
  • niggardly,
  • parsimoniously,
  • stingily,
  • meagerly,
  • scantily,
  • negligibly,
  • Paltrily,
  • delicately.
  •insufficiently (adverb)
  • scarcely,
  • sparsely,
  • poorly,
  • skimpily,
  • stingily,
  • inadequately,
  • meagerly,
  • niggardly,
  • deficiently,
  • scantily,
  • insufficiently.
  •selfishly (adverb)
  • parsimoniously,
  • stingily.
  •stingily (adverb)
  • pettily,
  • thriftily,
  • meagerly,
  • stingily,
  • tightly,
  • abstemiously,
  • austerely,
  • frugally,
  • parsimoniously,
  • meanly,
  • ascetically.

• n.

  •
  • economical,
  • niggard,
  • careful,
  • thrift,
  • tightfisted,
  • close-fisted,
  • Pinching,
  • cheap,
  • costive.
  •miserly (noun)
  • mingy,
  • stingy,
  • ungenerous,
  • tight,
  • mean.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • economical,
  • selfishly,
  • close-fisted,
  • Pinching,
  • costive.
  •
  • tightfisted.
  •frugal
  • chary.
  •inconsiderate
  • shabby.
  •miserly
  • illiberal.
  •Other relevant words:
  • covetousness,
  • churl,
  • measly,
  • unquenchable,
  • conservative,
  • wedge,
  • denigrate,
  • meagre,
  • insignificant,
  • cupidity,
  • hidebound,
  • contemn,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • meanspirited,
  • tightfisted,
  • cockeyed,
  • Economizing,
  • Gobbling,
  • straitened,
  • unsated,
  • fuddled,
  • dirty,
  • greed,
  • covetous,
  • self-indulgent,
  • deprecate,
  • disparage,
  • strict,
  • peddling,
  • Ungiving,
  • infrequent,
  • all-devouring,
  • miserliness,
  • stiff,
  • bastardly,
  • soused,
  • meanness,
  • compressed,
  • slender,
  • starvation,
  • devouring,
  • defy,
  • omnivorous,
  • frugality,
  • despise,
  • base,
  • swinish,
  • closeness,
  • omit,
  • save-all,
  • subsistence,
  • illiberal,
  • blotto,
  • chary,
  • watery,
  • Slakeless,
  • inconsiderate,
  • sloshed,
  • Mean-spirited,
  • excellent,
  • greediness,
  • parsimony,
  • scoff,
  • small-minded,
  • taut,
  • grabby,
  • narrow,
  • ravenous,
  • ravening,
  • Stinted,
  • extortionate,
  • miser,
  • scattered,
  • esurient,
  • disregard,
  • thin,
  • tightwad,
  • jejune,
  • insatiate,
  • near,
  • chinchy,
  • seldom met with,
  • selfishness,
  • thrift,
  • loaded,
  • chintzy,
  • impoverished,
  • rapacity,
  • minimize,
  • rigorous,
  • wet,
  • adjacent,
  • potty,
  • Dwarfed,
  • depreciate,
  • besotted,
  • costive,
  • quenchless,
  • humble,
  • hardfisted,
  • belittle,
  • crocked,
  • prudent,
  • sprinkled,
  • skinflint,
  • abase,
  • pathetic,
  • Coveting,
  • scrimpy,
  • desire,
  • money-hungry,
  • unaccommodating,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • careful,
  • avid,
  • average,
  • penuriously,
  • skimp,
  • Scrimping,
  • unappeased,
  • ignore,
  • selfishly,
  • Pinching,
  • unpretentious,
  • grudging,
  • Unslaked,
  • watered,
  • airtight,
  • lean,
  • scrooge,
  • detest,
  • thoughtless,
  • saving,
  • tipsy,
  • ignoble,
  • shabby,
  • pettiness,
  • cut,
  • nasty,
  • uncharitable,
  • scorn,
  • fail,
  • economical,
  • bottomless,
  • scrimp,
  • hoggish,
  • hateful,
  • niggard,
  • stinginess,
  • debase,
  • nearby,
  • flout,
  • scotch,
  • economy,
  • Skimping,
  • close,
  • moneygrubbing,
  • cheap,
  • Unnutritious,
  • stringent,
  • avarice,
  • rigid,
  • provident,
  • loathe,
  • acquisitiveness,
  • limited,
  • abject,
  • overgreedy,
  • limitless,
  • Griping,
  • unsatisfied,
  • gluttonous,
  • exiguous,
  • scrubby,
  • seldom seen,
  • stunted,
  • malice,
  • close-fisted,
  • rare,
  • piggish,
  • churlish,
  • squiffy,
  • stinting,
  • avidity,
  • demean,
  • insatiable,
  • hedonistic,
  • small-scale,
  • hedonic,
  • mingy,
  • penurious,
  • tight-fisted,
  • unappeasable,
  • decry,
  • begrudging,
  • miserable,
  • voracious,
  • pie-eyed.

Antonyms for Miserly:

• adj.

  • greedy, stingy
    generous, liberal, giving.
  • Other antonyms:
    good-hearted, splurging, greathearted, openhearted, overgenerous, thriftless, wasting, compassionate, handsome, hospitable, kindly, Frittering, altruistic, selfless.

Homophones for Miserly:

• managerial, mozzarella, misrule, mongrel, meagerly, mensural, mackerel, meagrely.