paltry

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

paltrierpaltriestpaultry

Superlative

paultriepalterey

1.
Trashy, trivial, of little value.
This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
She made some paltry excuse and left.
Đồng nghĩa: insignificant, unimportant, petty, trivial, beggarly
2.
Of little monetary worth.
Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
Student grants these days are paltry, and many students have to take out loans.
Đồng nghĩa: meager, worthless, pitiful, trifling
3.
Despicable; contemptibly unimportant.
a paltry coward

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Đồng nghĩa

insignificant unimportant petty trivialbeggarlymeager worthless pitiful trifling

Cùng gốc / liên quan

paltrily unpaltry paltriness

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Nguồn gốc từ

From paltrig (ragged, rubbishy, worthless), from palter, palte (cloth, rag, shred), from *paltro, *palto (cloth, rag), from Proto-Germanic *paltrô, *paltô (scrap, rag, patch). Of uncertain ultimate origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *polto- (cloth), see also.