MISER
What does "MISER" mean?
A person who hoards wealth and spends as little as possible, often at the cost of comfort.
Meanings
- A stingy person obsessed with accumulating money and reluctant to part with any of it. The old miser kept his fortune in a mattress and still wore the same threadbare coat.
Did you know?
- The Latin source 'miser' simply meant 'wretched' - the same root behind 'miserable' - so the very name brands the hoarder as pitiable before it ever mentions gold.
Word origin
From Latin 'miser', meaning 'wretched, unhappy', borrowed directly into English in the 1500s - the word originally stressed the misery, not the money.
Remember it
A MISER makes you MISERable - both grow from the same Latin 'miser', wretched.
A little poem
He counts each coin twice in the dark,
warming his hands at the locked safe -
the only fire he will not spend.
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Wordplay
- Why did the miser buy a flat battery? Because he heard it wouldn't run anything down.
What it teaches
Hoarding everything you have is just a slow way of refusing to ever have any of it.
Quick facts
What does MISER mean?
A person who hoards wealth and spends as little as possible, often at the cost of comfort.
Is MISER a valid word?
Yes — MISER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is MISER?
MISER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does MISER come from?
From Latin 'miser', meaning 'wretched, unhappy', borrowed directly into English in the 1500s - the word originally stressed the misery, not the money.
What can MISER teach us?
Hoarding everything you have is just a slow way of refusing to ever have any of it.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.