Miser
['maɪzə] or ['maɪzɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably).
Typist: Ted--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
(n.) A despicable person; a wretch.
(n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.
(n.) A kind of large earth auger.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Niggard, curmudgeon, hunks, skinflint, lickpenny, churl, sordid wretch.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Niggard, churl, skinflint, curmudgeon, screw, scrimp, hunks
ANT:Prodigal, spendthrift, rake
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Definition
n. a miserable person: an extremely covetous person: a niggard: one whose chief pleasure is in hoarding wealth.—adj. like a miser.—adj. Mī′serly excessively covetous: sordid: niggardly.
n. a tubular well boring-bit with valved opening for the earth passing up.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a miser, foretells you will be unfortunate in finding true happiness owing to selfishness, and love will disappoint you sorely. For a woman to dream that she is befriended by a miser, foretells she will gain love and wealth by her intelligence and tactful conduct. To dream that you are miserly, denotes that you will be obnoxious to others by your conceited bearing To dream that any of your friends are misers, foretells that you will be distressed by the importunities of others.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- Only a miser; that's all. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The folks call me a miser, my dear. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Bob, the Miser's cur. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Another miser? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You are a hard-hearted Miser. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Now, look well about you, my dear, and tell me if you see any book about a Miser. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Please I don't believe you are a hard-hearted miser at all, and please I don't believe you ever for one single minute were! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He never allowed Godfrey a shilling in his life, for he is an absolute miser, but it will all come to him right enough. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- It took many weeks to explore its whole contents; and Captain Holmes found it a very agreeable task to dive into the miser's secret hoards. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The Miser dies without a Shirt. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- What if he be a miser, and can make no use of what I would deprive him of? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Ah, people called him a miser. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Can we any longer doubt, then, that the miser and money-maker answers to the oligarchical State? Plato. The Republic.
- Didn't you make ME jump, when I opened my eyes a moment ago, and saw you sitting there, like the ghost of a girl miser, in the dead of the night. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He seemed to save up his Misers as they had saved up their money. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The rich, pursued the infatuated and unconscious Donne, are a parcel of misers, never living as persons with their incomes ought to live. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- This, sir,' replied Silas, adjusting his spectacles, and referring to the title-page, 'is Merryweather's Lives and Anecdotes of Misers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then they are not the Misers I mean. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the task was done, Mr Boffin, with his appetite for Misers whetted instead of satiated, began to look out again. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Oswald