Oh my word Miser, Misery, Miserly, Miserable

The misery of the miser has unfolded with the arrival of his daughter to the house for holidays: the daughter will ask for food from restaurants, and for latest gadgets. He will feel miserable because he is miserly but relents to the wishes and desires of his daughter.

Miser is a person who hoards wealth, and lives without spending for him.

Miser is someone who loves wealth, accumulates wealth and spends as little as possible.

Hello miser, can you spare some change?

Price-comparison websites are the delight of misers.

Miser is an avaricious person.

Miser comes from Latin, literally meaning ‘wretched’.

Miser is a discontented person.

Miserly is an adjective meaning like a miser; being mean, selfish: how can we get out of miserly habits?

Another meaning of miserly is something barely adequate, meager resources. Miserliness is a noun.

For the PhD students in India, many institutes pay miserly stipend. However, there are students who subsist on miserly allowances.

Miserable is an adjective meaning being wretchedly unhappy, sad, down, depressed, gloomy; and being pathetic, low, disgraceful, deplorable (miserable fellow).

Miserable weather!

Miserable also means mean inadequate (he made a miserable attempt to get out of the prison).

Misery is a wretched state of mind, or circumstances.

What causes miseries for human beings?

In British English, miser also refers to a person who is depressed often, or discontented.

Miserable indicates to something that is poor in quality or quantity. Restaurants that serve miserable food will soon be unfrequented the gourmands.

Miserable also refers to someone being mean or contemptible.

Shakuni is a miserable character in Mahabharat.

Miserable people are not rare in the society.

Miserably is an adverb. In order to escape the miserably rainy days people in the cold countries prefer to have holidays in the hot or tropical countries.

Misery is a noun. Misery is discomfort or suffering endured by a person especially the mind and the body.

What is his misery now?

Misery is a painful happening in a person’s life, misfortune of a person. In this context, the plural form is miseries. The miseries of the unemployed youth could be many but one among them is lack of job opportunities; or lack of respect for dignity of labour, thus refraining from taking up jobs.

Make somebody’s life a misery (creating wretchedness or discomfort to others) and put somebody out his or her misery (ending somebody’s suffering) are idioms.

Avoid the company of miserly and miserable people; you will be a positive and compassionate person.

Kovuuri G Reddy