[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

paltry \pal"try\ paddl"try^, a. compar. paltrier
   paddl"tri^~er; superl. paltriest. cf. prov. e.
   paltry refuse, rubbish, lg. palterig ragged, palte, palter, a
   rag, a tatter, dan. pialt, sw. palta, pl. paltor.
   mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful;
   trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. --cowper.
   1913 webster

         the paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. --byron.
   1913 webster

   syn: see contemptible.
        1913 webster
see also:
paltrier paltriest contemptible 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

paltry
     adj 1: not worth considering; "he considered the prize too paltry
            for the lives it must cost"; "piffling efforts"; "a
            trifling matter" syn: negligible, trifling
     2: contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company
        donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry
        wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried
        beans" syn: measly, miserable
     also: paltriest, paltrier
see also:
negligible trifling measly miserable paltriest paltrier 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

148 moby thesaurus words for "paltry":
   lenten, mickey mouse, spartan, abject, abominable, abstemious,
   arrant, ascetic, atrocious, austere, base, beggarly,
   beneath contempt, borne, cheap, cheesy, coarse, common,
   contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable,
   dirty, disgusting, dwarfed, dwarfish, execrable, exiguous,
   flagrant, foul, fourth-class, frugal, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky,
   grave, gross, heinous, illiberal, impoverished, inconsequential,
   inconsiderable, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, irregular,
   jejune, lean, limited, little, low, low-class, low-down, low-grade,
   low-quality, low-test, lumpen, mangy, meager, mean, measly,
   meretricious, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous, narrow,
   nefarious, niggardly, obnoxious, odious, parsimonious, pathetic,
   petty, picayune, piddling, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, punk,
   puny, rank, reptilian, rubbishy, sad, scabby, scant, scanty,
   scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy,
   second-best, second-class, seedy, set, shabby, shoddy, skimp,
   skimpy, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, small, sorry, spare,
   sparing, squalid, starvation, stingy, stinted, straitened, stunted,
   subsistence, tacky, tatty, thin, third-class, third-rate, tinny,
   trashy, trifling, trivial, trumpery, two-for-a-cent,
   two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unchivalrous,
   ungenerous, unimportant, unmentionable, unnourishing, unnutritious,
   valueless, vile, watered, watery, worthless, wretched

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