Synonyms for niggard
- noun
- adjective
All synonyms
Noun
1. Churl — A miser or stingy person; a skinflint
skinflint, scrooge, miser, muckworm, cheap skate, penny pincher, curmudgeon, scrimp, piker, tightwad informal, pinchfist, pinchpenny, cheapie informal, churl dated
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’
- adj. 1
Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
Forms
- Plural
- niggards → skinflints, scrooges, misers, muckworms…
Example sentences
- scrooge Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes.
- miser The miser opened the box to find his money stolen.
- skinflint That skinflint, he never offers to pay!
By length
- 5 letters
- miser2, piker2, churl
- 6 letters
- scrimp1
- 7 letters
- scrooge1, cheapie
- 8 letters
- tightwad2, muckworm
- 9 letters
- niggardly3, skinflint2, pinchfist
- 10 letters
- curmudgeon3, pinchpenny
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (miser2 = 2 syllables).