Miserly

Definition: Miserly

Miserly

Adjective

1. Used of persons or behavior; characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "miserly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Miserly \Mi"ser*ly\, adjective. [From Miser.]. (references)

Synonyms: Miserly

Parsimony

Adjective: parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, close; fast handed, close handed, strait handed; close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted; tight, sparing; chary; grudging, griping; Verb: illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

Crosswords: Miserly

Books

• Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income Economy (reference)

• Miserly Meals: Healthy, Tasty Recipes Under 75 Cents Per Serving (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Rachmaninov - The Miserly Knight · Aleko · Francesca da Rimini / Aleksashkin · von Otter · Larin · Chernov · Caley · Kotscherga · Gothenburg SO · N Järvi [IMPORT] (reference)

• Rachmaninov:Aleko/The Miserly Knight/Le Chevalier Avare/Francesca Da Rimini [IMPORT] (reference)

• The Miserly Knight (reference)

• Rachmaninov: Miserly Knight [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

One day, he was receiving alms for the poor in a parlour in the city, where the Marquis of Champtercier, who was old, rich, and miserly, was present

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "miserly": be miserly. Additional references.

Albanian

kurnac (churl, churlish, miser, penny-pinching, pinchpenny, tightwad), dorështrënguar (avaricious, careful, close-fisted, grasping, large handed, mean, mingy, muckworm, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, rapacious, saving, scrimp, skinflint, snippy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Arabic 

‏شحيح (mean, mingy, penury, piker, scant, scarce, sordid, stingy), ‏بخيل (avaricious, cheeseparing, mean, shy, skimpy, skinflint, spare, sparing, stingy, tight, tight-fisted), ‏بخلي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

скъпернически (avaricious, covetous, mean, mingy, miser, penurious, shabby, stingy), свидлив (avaricious, churlish, close-fisted, costive, hardfisted, illiberal, narrow, parsimonious, saving, skinny, tight, tight-fisted, ungenerous), алчен (accumulative, acquisitive, avid, covetous, eager, gloating, grasping, having, moneygrubbing, rapacious, sordid). (various references)

Czech

lakomý (avaricious, grasping, mean, parsimonious, stingy, tightfisted). (various references)

Danish

gerrig (avaricious, stingy). (various references)

Dutch

pinnig (avaricious, stingy), inhalig (avaricious, stingy), hebzuchtig (acquisitive, avaricious, greedy, stingy), gierig (avaricious, stingy). (various references)

Esperanto

avara (avaricious, stingy). (various references)

Faeroese

gírigur (avaricious, stingy). (various references)

Farsi 

چشم تنگ , خسیس (Hard, Hidebound, Penurious, Scotchman, Scrimpy, Skimpy, Skinflint, Sordid, Stingy, Stringent, Tight, Ungenerous). (various references)

Finnish

saita (avaricious, mean, stingy, tight-fisted). (various references)

French

avare (miser). (various references)

Frisian

taaimelk (avaricious, stingy), gjirrich (avaricious, stingy), earnich (avaricious, stingy). (various references)

German

geizig (avaricious, avariciously, costive, illiberal, mean, parsimonious, parsimoniously, penurious, penuriously, stingily, stingy, thrifty, tight-fisted). (various references)

Greek 

παραδόπιστος (mean, stingy, tight-fisted), φιλάργυροσ (avaricious, illiberal, miser, muckworm, parsimonious, penurious, skinflint, sordid, stingy, ungenerous), φιλάργυρος (avaricious, miser), τσιγγούνης (mean, stingy). (various references)

Hebrew 

קמצן (mean, mingy, miser, skinflint, stingy), קמצ� י (mean, parsimonious, scrimpy, skimpy, tight, tightfisted), כילי (avaricious, greedy, mean). (various references)

Hungarian

fösvény (avaricious, churlish, curmudgeon, hunks, miser, money grubber, near, parsimonious, pelting, penurious, shabby, skinflint, stingy, tightwad), szegényes (beggarly, grain of wheat in a bushel of chaff, Lenten, meagre, penurious, pitiable, pokey, poorish, poverty-stricken, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, slender). (various references)

Indonesian

pelit (penurious, stingy), cekel (stingy). (various references)

Italian

avaro (avaricious, close, grasping, greedy, hard-fisted, mean, mingy, miser, near, penurious, skinflint, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tightwad). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

算盤高い (calculating). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そろば�"� かい (calculating). (various references)

Manx

peajeogagh (cheese-paring, close-fisted, near, near with money, parsimonious, pinching, tight, tight-fisted), gortagh (beggarly, chary, cheese-paring, close-fisted, frugal, grudging, hurt, hurtful, illiberal, injurious, meagre, miser, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, scant, scanty, skimpy, stingy). (various references)

Pig Latin

iserlymay.(various references)

Portuguese

avaro (avaricious, covetous, mean, miser, narrow-fisted, stingy, tight, tight-fisted), avarento (avaricious, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, hunks, iron-fisted, mean, miser, parsimonious, penurious, scraper, scrimpy, skimpy, skinflint, stingy, tight, tight-fisted). (various references)

Romanian

zgârcit (accumulator, avaricious, cheese paring, churlish, clenched, close, close-fisted, close-handed, costive, covetous, curmudgeon, grasping, hunks, illiberal, iron-fisted, mean, miser, money grubber, muckworm, parsimonious, penny father, penny-wise, penurious, screw, skimpy, skin, skinflint, sparing, stingy, tight), scump (beloved, costly, dear, dearly, expensive, high, lovely, own, precious, pricey, valuable), avar (accumulative, avaricious, churl, churlish, close, close-fisted, grasping, miser, money grubber, muckworm, penurious, screw, stingy). (various references)

Russian 

скупой (cheese paring, churlish, close, close-fisted, curmudgeonly, griping, grudging, hard, hardfisted, mean, mingy, narrow, near, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight-fisted, ungenerous). (various references)

Scottish

teann (begin; come nigh : teannadh ri, fall to, fixed, narrow, rigid, strait, tense, tight). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cicijaški (close-fisted), škrt (avaricious, chary, close-fisted, grudging, hardfisted, mean, miser, parsimonious, penurious, scanty, scotch, scrimp, scrimpy, skimpy, stingy, tight, tightfisted, tight-fisted). (various references)

Spanish

avariento (miser, money-grubbing). (various references)

Swedish

girig (avaricious, avid, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, moneygrubbing, sordid, stingy). (various references)

Turkish

tamahkâr (avaricious, greedy), cimrice (mangily, meanly), çok küçük (miniature, very little, very small). (various references)

Turkmen 

gysganз (greedy, miser). (various references)

Ukrainian

скупий (chary, cheeseparing, churlish, clam, close-fisted, covetous, gripping, grudging, hard-fisted, illiberal, mean-spirited, mingy, narrow, near, nigh, parsimonious, penny-pinching, saving, scant, screwy, scrimpy, skimpy, snippy, split-farthing, stingy, tight-fisted), скнарий (churlish, hard-fisted, mingy, penurious, tight-fisted). (various references)

Vietnamese 

keo kiệt (iron-fisted, near, scrimpy, skimpingly, stingy), h� tiện (costive, narrow-fisted, stintingly), bủn xỉn (close-fisted, hard-fisted, meanly, penurious, scrimpy, skimpingly, skimpy). (various references)

Welsh

cybyddlyd (avaricious), anhael (miser). (various references)

avare, avari, avaris, avaro, avarus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Miserly" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Messerli, Mierlo, misel, Misell, misely, misrel, misrly, Mizell, mosely. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: misrely.

-1 letter: limeys, lyrism, milers, misery, smiler, smiley.

-2 letters: emirs, liers, limes, limey, lyres, merls, miler, miles, mires, miser, riels, riles, riley, rimes, slier, slime, slimy, slyer, smile, ylems.

-3 letters: elms, elmy, emir, ires, isle, leis, leys, lier, lies, lime, limy, lire, lyes, lyre, lyse, mels, merl, mile, mils, mire, mirs, miry, mise, reis, rely.

+1 letter: mislayer, remissly, rimosely.

+2 letters: irksomely, lysimeter, miserably, mislayers, missilery.

+3 letters: berylliums, lysimeters, lysimetric, micropyles, minelayers, minstrelsy, misrelying, oversimply, perilymphs, polymerise, polymerism, remissibly, semiyearly, symbolizer, tiresomely.

+4 letters: acrylamides, amaryllises, biopolymers, chrysomelid, erythrismal, imperiously, imprecisely, mayoralties, mercilessly, millihenrys, mirthlessly, permissibly, plyometrics, polymerised, polymerises, polymerisms, polymerizes, presumingly, proselytism, screamingly, superfamily, symbolizers, symmetrical, wearisomely, worrisomely.

+5 letters: amateurishly, asymmetrical, chrysomelids, embryologies, embryologist, hyperrealism, immeasurably, imperishably, impersonally, imperviously, impressively, isothermally, meristically, mesmerically, multisensory, multiversity, mysteriously, oversimplify, permissively, polycentrism, polychromies, polymerising, polyribosome, proselytisms.