paltry

Adjective

• 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
    

• not worth considering
  • he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
    
  • piffling efforts
    
  • a trifling matter
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  measly , miserable , negligible , trifling