measly \mea"sly\ (m[=e]"zly), a.
1. Infected with measles.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and
beef.
[1913 Webster]
3. Contemptibly small in quantity; meager; absurdly
insufficient or bad; as, a measly few dollars for all that
work.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
measly
adj : 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" [syn: miserable, paltry]
[also: measliest, measlier]
WordNet (r) 2.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "measly":
abject, abominable, allergic, anemic, apoplectic, arrant,
arthritic, atrocious, base, beggarly, bilious, cancerous, cheesy,
chlorotic, colicky, consumptive, contemptible, crummy, debased,
degraded, depraved, despicable, dirty, disgusting, dropsical,
dyspeptic, edematous, encephalitic, epileptic, execrable, flagrant,
foul, fulsome, grave, gross, heinous, jerkwater, laryngitic,
leprous, little, low, low-down, luetic, lumpen, malarial,
malignant, mangy, mean, mingy, miserable, miserly, monstrous,
nefarious, nephritic, neuralgic, neuritic, niggardly, niggling,
obnoxious, odious, one-horse, palsied, paltry, paralytic, pathetic,
pettifogging, petty, phthisic, picayune, picayunish, piddling,
piffling, pleuritic, pneumonic, pocky, podagric, poky, poor, punk,
puny, rachitic, rank, reptilian, rheumatic, rickety, scabby, scant,
scanty, scorbutic, scrofulous, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy,
shabby, shoddy, skimpy, small, small-beer, small-time, sparse,
squalid, stingy, tabetic, tabid, tinhorn, trifling, trivial,
tubercular, tuberculous, tumorigenic, tumorous, two-bit,
two-by-four, unmentionable, vile, wretched
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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