adjective. Lacking in importance or worth. synonym: trivial.

adjective. Very small or inadequate in amount; negligible.

adjective. Marked by meanness or lack of generosity; contemptible.

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.

noun. A wretched, worthless trifle.

adjective. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling

adjective. trashy, trivial, of little value

adjective. meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling

adjective. not worth considering

adjective. contemptibly small in amount

"Haughty, proud, and uncompromising, though neither destitute of honor nor generosity, he despised and hated what he termed the paltry associations of herdsmen and shepherds, united with a few towns which subsisted chiefly by commerce; and instead of courting the Helvetian"

generous  

meager  meagerly  meagre  scrimpy  stingy  

abominable  contemptible  frivolous  ignoble  infamous  

Lenten  Mickey Mouse  Spartan  abject  abominable  

paltrier  paltriest