Thesaurus:miser
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: person who avoids spending money to an excessive extent edit
Synonyms edit
- carl (Scotland, obsolete)
- cheapass (slang)
- cheapie (informal)
- cheapskate
- cheapo (slang)
- churl
- clutchfist (obsolete)
- el cheapo (slang)
- last of the big spenders
- magpie
- miser
- moneygrubber
- muckerer
- muckworm
- nickel nurser (idiomatic)
- nig (archaic)
- niggard
- nigon (obsolete)
- nipcheese
- nipfarthing (obsolete)
- penny-father (obsolete)
- penny pincher
- pickpenny
- piker
- pinch-commons (obsolete)
- pinch-gut (obsolete)
- pincher
- pinchfist
- pinchpenny
- scrimp
- scrooge
- squirrel
- skinflint
- snudge (obsolete)
- tight-arse (slang)
- tightwad
Antonyms edit
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “819. parsimony” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “miser” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
- some synonyms at Google Ngram Viewer