Word Meanings - MISERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISERLY)

• Penurious
• Niggardly
• parsimonious
• avaricious
• griping
• miserly
• closefisted
• sordid
• stingy

Related words: (words related to MISERLY)

• SORDIDNESS
  The quality or state of being sordid.
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• GRIPSACK
  A traveler's handbag.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• SORDID
  1. Filthy; foul; dirty. A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden. 2. Vile; base; gross; mean; as, vulgar, sordid mortals. "To scorn the sordid world." Milton. 3. Meanly avaricious; covetous;
• GRIPINGLY
  In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
• MISERLY
  Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly. Syn. -- Avaricious; niggardly; sordid; parsimonious; penurious; covetous; stingy; mean. See Avaricious.
• GRIPER
  One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
• GRIPMAN
  The man who manipulates a grip.
• GRIPPLENESS
  The quality of being gripple.
• STINGY
  Stinging; able to sting.
• AVARICIOUS
  Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property. Syn. -- Greedy; stingy; rapacious; griping; sordid; close. -- Avaricious, Covetous, Parsimonious, Penurious, Miserly, Niggardly. The avaricious eagerly grasp after
• SORDIDLY
  Sordidness.
• NIGGARDLY
  Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard. Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly. Bp. Hall. Syn. -- Avarcious; covetous; parsimonious; sparing; miserly; penurios; sordid;
• GRIPEFUL
  Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
• GRIP CAR
  A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
• PENURIOUS
  1. Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton. 2. Not bountiful or liberal; scanty. Here creeps along a poor, penurious stream. C. Pitt. 3. Destitute of money; suffering extreme
• GRIP
  The griffin.
• PARSIMONIOUS
  Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in expenditure of money; frugal to excess; penurious; niggardly; stingy. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. -- Par`si*mo"ni*ous*ness, n. A prodigal king is nearer a tyrant than a parsimonious. Bacon. Extraordinary funds for
• GRIPPER
  In printing presses, the fingers or nippers. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, grips or seizes. 2. pl.
• HANDYGRIPE
  Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
• LOGOGRIPH
  A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word chatter form cat, hat, rat, hate, rate, etc. B.