paltry

paltry

trashy, worthless: The prize was too paltry to justify an effort to win.; contemptible: The paltry wage that they offer is an insult.
Not to be confused with:poultry – chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese raised for food

pal·try

P0033600 (pôl′trē)adj. pal·tri·er, pal·tri·est 1. Lacking in importance or worth. See Synonyms at trivial.2. Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible: was paid a paltry sum for his work.3. Marked by meanness or lack of generosity; contemptible: "I would far rather burn my whole book, than that he or any other man should think that I had behaved in a paltry spirit" (Charles Darwin).

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[Probably from obsolete and dialectal paltry, trash, perhaps from Low German paltrig, ragged, from palte, rag.]

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pal′tri·ly adv.pal′tri·ness n.

paltry

(ˈpɔːltrɪ) adj, -trier or -triest1. insignificant; meagre2. worthless or petty[C16: from Low Germanic palter, paltrig ragged] ˈpaltrily adv ˈpaltriness n

pal•try

(ˈpɔl tri)

adj. -tri•er, -tri•est. 1. ridiculously or insultingly small: a paltry sum. 2. utterly worthless: paltry clothes. 3. mean or contemptible: a paltry coward. [1560–70; < Low German paltrig ragged =*palter rag (compare dial. German Palter) + -ig -y¹] pal′tri•ness, n. syn: See petty.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	paltry - not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter"trifling, negligibleworthless - lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler"
	2.	paltry - contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"measly, miserablemeager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

paltry

adjective1. meagre, petty, trivial, trifling, beggarly, derisory, measly, piddling (informal), inconsiderable He was fined the paltry sum of $50.
meagre considerable, valuable2. insignificant, trivial, worthless, unimportant, small, low, base, minor, slight, petty, trifling, Mickey Mouse (slang), piddling (informal), toytown (slang), poxy (slang), nickel-and-dime (U.S. slang), picayune (U.S.), chickenshit (U.S. slang), twopenny-halfpenny (Brit. informal) She had no interest in such paltry concerns.
insignificant major, important, grand, significant, essential, consequential

paltry

adjective1. Contemptibly unimportant:inconsiderable, negligible, niggling, nugatory, petty, picayune, piddling, small, small-minded, trifling.Slang: measly.Idiom: of no account.2. Of decidedly inferior quality:base, cheap, lousy, miserable, poor, rotten, shoddy, sleazy, trashy.Informal: cheesy.Slang: crummy, schlocky.

Translations

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