Word Meanings - PALTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible. (more info) E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. paltering ragged,

Additional info about word: PALTRY

Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible. (more info) E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. paltering ragged, palte, palter, a

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PALTRY)

• Childish
• Weak
• silly
• puerile
• infantine
• imbecile
• foolish
• trifling
• paltry
• trivial
• Contemptible
• despicable
• mean
• vile
• pitiful
• disreputable
• Little
• Small
• tiny
• pigmy
• diminutive
• short
• brief
• scanty
• unimportant
• insignificant
• slight
• weak
• inconsiderable
• illiberal
• petty
• dirty
• shabby
• dwarf
• Petty
• ignoble
• narrow
• contemptible
• minute
• feeble
• slender
• fine
• inferior

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PALTRY)

• Regard
• respect
• notice
• observe

Related words: (words related to PALTRY)

• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• NARROW
  A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• INFERIORLY
  In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
• SILLYHOW
  A caul. See Caul, n., 3.
• SLIGHTEN
  To slight. B. Jonson.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• DESPICABLE
  Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift. Syn. -- Contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; pitiful; paltry; sordid; low; base. See Contemptible.
• SLIGHTINGLY
  In a slighting manner.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• IMBECILE
  Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane. Syn. -- Weak; feeble; feeble-minded; idiotic.
• DWARFLING
  A diminutive dwarf.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• IGNOBLENESS
  State or quality of being ignoble.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.