paltry

paltry is a 6-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. superlative. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
2. adjective. contemptibly small in amount

   "a measly tip"

   "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"

   Synonyms: measly, miserable

3. adjective. not worth considering

   "he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost"

   "piffling efforts"

   Synonyms: negligible, trifling

Synonyms

measly, miserable, negligible, trifling

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in paltry:

partly, raptly

Common word forms

paltrier, paltrily, paltriest

Words from these letters

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