paltry
adjective
[ ˈpɔːltri ]
• (of an amount) very small or meagre.
• "she would earn a paltry £33 more a month"
Similar:
small,
meagre,
trifling,
insignificant,
negligible,
inadequate,
insufficient,
scant,
scanty,
derisory,
pitiful,
pitiable,
pathetic,
miserable,
sorry,
wretched,
puny,
trivial,
beggarly,
mean,
ungenerous,
inappreciable,
mere,
measly,
piddling,
piffling,
mingy,
dinky,
poxy,
exiguous,
Origin:
mid 16th century: apparently based on dialect pelt ‘rubbish, especially rags’; compare with Low German paltrig ‘ragged’.
