Definition of paltry Paltry
/pɔˈltɹi/ - [poltree] - pal•try
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| 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, miserable | ||
| meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" | ||
| paltry - not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a trifling matter" | ||
| negligible, trifling | ||
| worthless lacking in usefulness or value; "a worthless idler" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- paltry (superl.)
Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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paltry
pawl′tri, adj. mean: vile: worthless.—adv. Pal′trily.—n. Pal′triness. [Teut.; Dan. pialter, rags, Low Ger. paltrig, ragged.]
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