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paltry

/ˈpɔːltri/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈpɔːltri/
paltry
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Aw vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

pal - try -> paltry

Myanmar meaning

တန်ဖိုးမရှိသော။ အထင်သေးစရာကောင်းသော။ အသေးအဖွဲဖြစ်သော။

Full entry

paltry /'pↄ:ltri/ adj (usu derog )

(က) သေးနုပ်သော။ မဖြစ် စလောက်။ a paltry amount/ sum.
(ခ) အသုံးမကျသော။ လက်ခံနိုင်ဖွယ်ရာ မရှိသော။ a paltry excuse.

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  • paltry /'pↄ:ltri/ adj ( usu derog ) (က) သေးနုပ်သော။ မဖြစ် စလောက်။ a paltry amount/ sum. (ခ) အသုံးမကျသော။ လက်ခံနိုင်ဖွယ်ရာ မရှိသော။ a paltry excuse.
Synonyms
worthless, measly, trivial, trifling, miserable, insignificant, base, beggarly, cheap, common, contemptible, derisory, despicable, inconsiderable, ineffectual, limited, low, low-down, meager, mean, minor, narrow, petty, picayune, piddling, pitiful, poor, poor; worthless, puny, set, shabby, shoddy, sleazy, slight, small, sorry, trashy, unconsequential, unimportant, vile, wretched
Antonyms
big, consequential, happy, important, large, plenty, rich, significant, substantial, sufficient, valuable, wealthy, worthwhile, worthy
Cross references
worthlessmeaslytrivialtriflingmiserableinsignificantbasebeggarlycheapcommoncontemptiblederisorydespicableinconsiderableineffectuallimitedlowlow-downmeagermeanminornarrowpettypicayunepiddlingpitifulpoorpoor; worthless
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