Dictionary Definition
paltry adj
1 not worth considering; "he considered the prize
too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a
trifling matter" [syn: negligible, trifling]
2 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" [syn:
measly, miserable] [also: paltriest, paltrier]
User Contributed Dictionary
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Lenten,
Mickey Mouse, Spartan,
abject, abominable, abstemious, arrant, ascetic, atrocious, austere, base, beggarly, beneath contempt,
borne, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dwarfed, dwarfish, execrable, exiguous, flagrant, foul, fourth-class, frugal, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, gross, heinous, illiberal, impoverished, inconsequential,
inconsiderable,
ineffectual,
inferior, insignificant, irregular, jejune, lean, limited, little, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade,
low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly, meretricious, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous, narrow, nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, parsimonious, pathetic, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk, puny, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, second-best,
second-class, seedy,
set, shabby, shoddy, skimp, skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, sorry, spare, sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted, subsistence, tacky, tatty, thin, third-class, third-rate,
tinny, trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny,
unchivalrous,
ungenerous, unimportant, unmentionable, unnourishing, unnutritious, valueless, vile, watered, watery, worthless, wretched