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What is paltry?
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What does the word paltry mean?
Pronunciation:
[ pˈɔːltɹɪ], [ pˈɔːltɹɪ], [ p_ˈɔː_l_t_ɹ_ɪ]
Related words: a paltry sum, a paltry explanation, paltrily and lazily, he was treated with a paltry indifference, the work can be accomplished with a paltry expenditure of time and effort
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Similar words for paltry:
- all (adjective)
- base (adjective)
- cheap (adjective)
- contemptible (adjective)
- easy (adjective)
- empty (adjective)
- exiguous (adjective)
- feeble (adjective)
- few (adjective)
- frivolous (adjective)
- humble (adjective)
- inconsequent (adjective)
- inconsequential (adjective)
- inconsequential/inconsiderable (adjective)
- ineffective (adjective)
- ineffective/ineffectual (adjective)
- inefficacious (adjective)
- inferior (adjective)
- insignificant (adjective)
- lightweight (adjective)
- limited (adjective)
- little (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- low-grade (adjective)
- low-quality (adjective)
- meager (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- measly (adjective)
- minor (adjective)
- minor-league (adjective)
- miserable (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- no-account (adjective)
- no-good (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pathetic (adjective)
- petty (adjective)
- piddling (adjective)
- piddly (adjective)
- pitiful (adjective)
- poor (adjective)
- poor; of or in inferior circumstances (adjective)
- puny (adjective)
- ruthful (adjective)
- second-class (adjective)
- shallow (adjective)
- shoddy (adjective)
- slight (adjective)
- subordinate (adjective)
- trifling (adjective)
- unimportant (adjective)
- vain (adjective)
- woeful (adjective)
- worthless (adjective)
- wretched (adjective)
- meagerly (noun)
- meagre (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- inconsiderate
- insignificant
- petty
Synonyms for Paltry:
adj.
• all (adjective) • base (adjective)- dis honorable,
- grovelling,
- dis reputable,
- in-delicate,
- foul,
- dis graceful,
- un worthiest,
- un worthier,
- most grovelling,
- more grovelling,
- in delicate,
- scandalous,
- un-worthiest,
- un-worthier,
- un worthy,
- dis-honorable,
- dis-reputable,
- un-worthy,
- menial,
- dis-graceful.
- rinky-dink,
- rinkydink,
- second-rate,
- secondrate,
- cruddy,
- junky,
- second rate,
- catchpenny,
- tawdry,
- rubbishy,
- scroungy,
- glitzy,
- no bargain.
- dis gusting,
- scurvier,
- de-generate,
- more swinish,
- low down,
- more low down,
- heel,
- de generate,
- more outcast,
- more currish,
- de-testable,
- outcast,
- de testable,
- most swinish,
- most despisable,
- most outcast,
- more lowdown,
- out-cast,
- out cast,
- more low-down,
- most low down,
- heelest,
- scurviest,
- sad,
- scummiest,
- dis-gusting,
- most low-down,
- most lowdown,
- more despisable,
- scummy.
- cinchest,
- uncomplicated,
- most undemanding,
- most painless,
- childs play,
- pushover,
- piece cake,
- more undemanding,
- most apparent,
- snappest,
- more painless,
- more picnic,
- most picnic,
- wieldier,
- un-complicated,
- un-demanding,
- nothing to it,
- nothing it,
- elementary,
- manageable,
- most untroublesome,
- more pushover,
- piece of cake,
- un-involved,
- un troublesome,
- effortless,
- un complicated,
- un demanding,
- wieldiest,
- un-troublesome,
- more untroublesome,
- more evident,
- most pushover,
- un involved,
- child play.
- dis-honest,
- un real,
- in sincerer,
- in sincerest,
- in-sincere,
- in sincere,
- un-real,
- un substantial,
- de void,
- in sipid,
- in-sipid,
- de-void,
- empty,
- insincere,
- in expressive,
- un-substantial,
- un intelligent,
- in-expressive,
- un-intelligent,
- un-satisfactory,
- in-sincerest,
- in-sincerer,
- dis honest,
- meaningless,
- un satisfactory.
- tiny.
- impotent,
- out of gas,
- fragile,
- lame,
- wimpy,
- enervated,
- insufficient,
- fainter,
- helpless,
- sapless,
- inefficient,
- Strengthless,
- in firm.
- tongue-in-cheek,
- more lightminded,
- more light-minded,
- facetious,
- sportive,
- ill-considered,
- empty headed,
- light minded,
- lightminded,
- un profoundest,
- un-profound,
- most light-minded,
- un-profounder,
- most lightminded,
- flippest,
- more light minded,
- un-profoundest,
- unprofounder,
- non-serious,
- un profounder,
- most nonserious,
- flighty,
- ill considered,
- more nonserious,
- playful,
- nonserious,
- illconsidered,
- non serious,
- unprofound,
- un profound,
- light-minded,
- most sportive,
- unprofoundest,
- most light minded.
- more shoestring,
- in appreciable,
- un considered,
- in-appreciable,
- most entry level,
- more entrylevel,
- un-considered,
- entrylevel,
- runtest,
- more entry level,
- runter,
- more entry-level,
- most shoestring,
- most entry-level,
- most entrylevel.
- more slack spined,
- more slack-spined,
- most slack spined,
- un available,
- slack spined,
- in-effective,
- most emasculate,
- more slackspined,
- most slackspined,
- ineffective,
- more emasculate,
- slackspined,
- most slack-spined,
- slack-spined,
- in effective,
- un-available.
- in-nocuous,
- null and void,
- anti climactic,
- in-operative,
- de feasible,
- un availing,
- more defeasible,
- de-feasible,
- most neutralized,
- un-ablest,
- more forceless,
- un abler,
- most invertebrate,
- more anticlimactic,
- un ablest,
- null void,
- un-fruitful,
- invertebrate,
- in operative,
- un profitable,
- more ineffective,
- un-successful,
- more neutralized,
- in-vertebrate,
- in vertebrate,
- un-abler,
- un fruitful,
- most forceless,
- un productive,
- most defeasible,
- un-availing,
- in-effectual,
- anti-climactic,
- un-profitable,
- un successful,
- more invertebrate,
- un-productive,
- most anticlimactic,
- in effectual,
- in nocuous.
- most minimal,
- irrelevant,
- more purportless,
- more minim,
- in significant,
- most purportless,
- non essential,
- most minim,
- in-significant.
- least,
- scanty,
- meager,
- short,
- self-centered,
- hidebound,
- minute,
- brief,
- inconsequent,
- concise,
- diminutive,
- few,
- delicate,
- succinct,
- compact.
- below mark,
- more second string,
- bushleague,
- de-pendent,
- most younger,
- most second string,
- most small fry,
- most junior,
- most smallfry,
- most secondstring,
- junior,
- more smallfry,
- more second-string,
- more accessory,
- more small-fry,
- most second-string,
- de pendent,
- more small fry,
- most accessory,
- most small-fry,
- secondstring,
- more younger,
- smallfry,
- more secondstring.
- narrow,
- penny ante,
- entry-level,
- peewee,
- humble,
- unimportant,
- Bummed,
- measly,
- schlocky,
- below the mark,
- anguished,
- currish,
- no-account,
- inconsequential,
- painless,
- low-down,
- nickel-and-dime,
- cheap,
- petty,
- unrespectable,
- Commiserable,
- counter-productive,
- scrimper,
- moderate,
- wieldy,
- pint-sized,
- broken down,
- picayune,
- scurvy,
- undemanding,
- pitiful,
- feeble,
- second-string,
- skimper,
- Despisable,
- piddly,
- half-pint,
- Heeler,
- counterproductive,
- woeful,
- beside point,
- no trouble,
- cincher,
- frivolous,
- scrimpy,
- scummier,
- low quality,
- little,
- suboptimal,
- big zero,
- small time,
- anticlimactic,
- penny-ante,
- sorry,
- shrimp,
- swinish,
- lightweight,
- tongue in cheek,
- no way,
- no bother,
- puny,
- inefficacious,
- derisory,
- untroublesome,
- Unconsequential,
- no sweat,
- shrimper,
- insignificant,
- easy,
- forceless,
- subordinate,
- snapper,
- small,
- poor,
- no biggie,
- miserable,
- Non-essential,
- small-fry,
- scratcher,
- too little too late,
- base,
- no-good,
- scant,
- defeasible,
- smalltime,
- emptyheaded,
- no go,
- no problem,
- small fry,
- lowdown,
- low,
- not serious,
- minor,
- inferior,
- not burdensome,
- exiguous,
- not worth mentioning,
- worthless,
- in the pits,
- slight,
- flipper,
- shoestring,
- pathetic,
- easily done,
- Purportless,
- under-sized,
- not effective,
- vain,
- down and out,
- no big deal,
- contemptible.
- in essential,
- nickel and dime,
- more nickel-and-dime,
- more pennyante,
- more pettifogging,
- more penny ante,
- most nickel-and-dime,
- most penny ante,
- scratchest,
- most penny-ante,
- most pennyante,
- most peanut,
- most pettifogging,
- more peanut,
- in-essential,
- more nickel and dime,
- most nickel and dime,
- more penny-ante,
- narrow minded,
- pennyante,
- narrowminded.
- mean.
- more pint-sized,
- more nothing,
- most half-pint,
- most half pint,
- pint sized,
- most pint-sized,
- most pint sized,
- un sounder,
- most halfpint,
- halfpint,
- un-soundest,
- un-consequential,
- zilcher,
- shrimpest,
- un-sounder,
- most peewee,
- more halfpint,
- under sized,
- un sound,
- zilchest,
- most nothing,
- most unconsequential,
- un-developed,
- half pint,
- un-sound,
- un consequential,
- more pint sized,
- more peewee,
- more half pint,
- more unconsequential,
- more half-pint.
- dis-creditable,
- dis creditable,
- most unrespectable,
- not snuff,
- un respectable,
- un-respectable,
- not to snuff,
- not up to snuff,
- brokendown,
- not up snuff,
- more unrespectable.
- no-win,
- not a prayer,
- Shucker,
- going nowhere,
- on a treadmill,
- time-wasting,
- unnotable,
- in vicious circle,
- on treadmill,
- profitless.
- more anguished,
- Racked,
- more grieving,
- most grieving,
- heartsick,
- more agonized,
- un happier,
- un fortunate,
- most tortured,
- most racked,
- most anguished,
- dis-appointing,
- un-fortunate,
- un happy,
- un happiest,
- more tortured,
- most agonized,
- un-happy,
- dis appointing,
- more racked.
n.
• meagerly (noun) • meagre (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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- weak.
How to use "Paltry" in context?
1. "paltry" is used to describe something that is small, insignificant, or lacklustre. It can also be used to describe something that is not worth the effort or money.
2. Paltry amounts of money or effort can be frustrating, because it seems like not enough is being done to make a real difference. It can also be embarrassing when something is given a low priority or when one's efforts are not appreciated.
3. Paltry sums of money can also be used to buy luxuries that are not really necessary, or to waste time on things that are not really worthwhile.
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Adjective
derisory, inconsiderable, insignificant, lousy, minuscule, miserable, miserly, pitiful, poor, ridiculous, trivial.
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