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stingy | misery |

As an adjective stingy

is stinging; able to sting or stingy can be extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.

As a noun misery is

great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.

stingy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Stinging; able to sting.

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain, possibly from stinge, a dialectal variation of .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Extremely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl.
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    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * stingily * stinginess

    Anagrams

    * English heteronyms English terms with multiple etymologies

    misery

    English

    Noun

    (miseries)
  • Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
    • Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face .
  • Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
  • (Extreme) poverty.
  • Greed; avarice.

    • Synonyms

    * see

    Derived terms

    * put out of one's misery

    Related terms

    * commiserate * miser * miserable