PALTRY vs MEAGER: NOUN
- A wretched, worthless trifle.
- A sickness.
- Same as maigre, 2.
- A spent salmon, or kelt.
PALTRY vs MEAGER: ADJECTIVE
- Meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling
- Trashy, trivial, of little value
- Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling
- Marked by meanness or lack of generosity; contemptible.
- Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible.
- Lacking in importance or worth. : trivial.
- Not worth considering
- Contemptibly small in amount
- Deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent; scanty.
- Deficient in amount or quality or extent
- Barely adequate
- Deficient in richness, fertility, or vigor; feeble.
- Having little flesh; lean.
- Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
- Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. Opposite of ample.
- Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
- Less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.
- Having little flesh; lean; thin.
- Poor, deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.
PALTRY vs MEAGER: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Mean; worthless; despicable: as, a paltry trifle; often in a mitigated sense, of little value of consequence.
- Synonyms Despicable, Pitiful, etc. (see contemptible), insignificant, petty, miserable, wretched, trifling, trivial.
- To make lean.
- Lean; thin; having little flesh.
- Without richness or fertility; barren: said of land.
- Without moisture; dry and harsh: said of chalk, etc.
- Without fullness, strength, substance, or value; deficient in quantity or quality; scanty; poor; mean.
- 2 and Tame, barren, bald, jejune, dull, prosing.
- Synonyms Spare, emaciated, lank, gaunt.
- Lenten; adapted to a fast. See maigre.
PALTRY vs MEAGER: RELATED WORDS
- Wretched, Scant, Pathetic, Feeble, Minuscule, Miserly, Pitiful, Worthless, Meagerly, Miserable, Trifling, Meagre, Negligible, Measly, Meager
- Modest, Hand to mouth, Scrimpy, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry
PALTRY vs MEAGER: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Shabby, Wretched, Scant, Pathetic, Feeble, Minuscule, Miserly, Pitiful, Worthless, Miserable, Trifling, Meagre, Negligible, Measly, Meager
- Modest, Scrimpy, Hand to mouth, Spare, Hardscrabble, Ungenerous, Bare, Exiguous, Marginal, Stingy, Miserable, Scanty, Meagre, Measly, Paltry
PALTRY vs MEAGER: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Some states, like Arizona and Florida, have paltry exemptions.
- Maori sold land to the British for paltry sums.
- SYN: despicable, mean, vile, pitiful, disreputable, paltry, trifling, trivial.
- SYN: Trifling, trite, common, unimportant, useless, nugatory, paltry, inconsiderable.
- Many objected to what they considered a paltry penalty.
- Well apparently the paltry amount of money Mr.
- Great Depression despite the paltry social service measures.
- But such riches were about to seem paltry.
- We now rate this trail a paltry zero.
- Is it worth investing for such paltry returns?
- Data on the Far East is meager but mixed.
- Also get ready to closesome, if travel is meager.
- The spending envisioned easily could deliver meager results.
- The meager evacuation plan also complicated quarantine measures.
- Americans faced meager prospects in the postwar South.
- Cognizant that pension was a meager $290, Dr.
- CD supply is too meager for his taste.
- Sharon Flake added to my meager classroom library.
- Wehave meager news of our terrible defeat there.
- The farmer who plants a meager amount of seed will have a meager harvest.
PALTRY vs MEAGER: QUESTIONS
- Is detaining someone paltry compared to denying someone?
- Why do car accident victims fall for State Farm paltry offers?
- Can a paltry donation strategy increase the success rate of donations?
- How many answers are there to the meager crossword clue?
- What happened to the south Meager Creek geothermal prospect?