Englishpaltry
adjective
1 a paltry sum of money | a paltry 41p:
small, meager, trifling, insignificant, negligible, inadequate, insufficient, scant, scanty, derisory, pitiful, pitiable, pathetic, miserable, sorry, wretched, puny, trivialbeggarly, mean, ungenerous, inappreciable, mere;
informal measly, piddling, piffling, mingy, dinky;
British, informal poxy;
rare exiguous.
▷antonyms considerable, substantial.
2 naval glory struck him as paltry:
worthless, petty, trivial, unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, of little account/consequence, meaningless, negligible, nugatory, minor, footling, contemptible;
informal penny-ante;
British, informal twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny;
North American, informal nickel-and-dime, picayune.
▷antonyms important, significant, valuable.
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