Thesaurus:miser

Thesaurus

miser

English

Noun

Sense: person who avoids spending money to an excessive extent

Synonyms

• 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

• spendthrift    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:stingy
• Thesaurus:greedy

Further reading

• “819. parsimony” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “miser” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
• some synonyms at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.