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paultry

paultry is the obsolete form of paltry.

Meaning of paltry

Adjective

paltry (comparative paltrier, superlative paltriest)

  1. Trashy, trivial, of little value.
    • This is indeed a paltry flyer about a silly product.
  2. Of little monetary worth.
    • Could someone hope to survive on such a paltry income?
  3. Despicable; contemptibly unimportant.
    • a paltry coward

Forms of paultry

comparativemore paultry
superlativemost paultry

Questions about paultry

What is paultry the obsolete form of?
Paultry is the obsolete form of paltry.

Words near paultry in the dictionary

  1. paultering
  2. paulters
  3. Paultin
  4. Paulton
  5. paultrie
  6. paultry
  7. Pauly
  8. Paulínia
  9. paum
  10. Pauma
  11. Paumanok

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Adapted from Wiktionary: paultry (page history and authors); paltry (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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