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someone who has a great desire to possess money and hates to spend it, sometimes living like a poor person because of this: On environmental spending, the president is a miser. miserly. adjective us / ˈmɑɪ·zər·li / My father was pretty miserly. (Definition of miser from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
The meaning of MISER is a mean grasping person; especially : one who is extremely stingy with money. How to use miser in a sentence.
A miser / ˈmaɪzər / is a person who is reluctant to spend money, sometimes to the point of forgoing even basic comforts and some necessities, in order to hoard money or other possessions. [1] .
Miser definition: a person who lives in wretched circumstances in order to save and hoard money.. See examples of MISER used in a sentence.
A miser is someone who hoards his or her own wealth and doesn’t share or spend any of it. If you remember the old saying “You can’t take it with you!” — then you won't end up acting stingy like a miser. The most famous fictional miser is probably Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
If you say that someone is a miser, you disapprove of them because they seem to hate spending money, and try to spend as little as possible.
Definition of miser noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
How to use . miser in a sentenceHis very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers.
What does the word miser mean? There are six meanings listed in OED's entry for the word miser, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How common is the word miser? About 0.5 occurrences per million words in modern written English. See frequency.
someone who has a great desire to possess money and hates to spend it, sometimes living like a poor person because of this: On environmental spending, the president is a miser. miserly. adjective us / ˈmɑɪ·zər·li / My father was pretty miserly. (Definition of miser from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
