Advanced and Proficiency Vocabulary for Exams(e.g.GRE, Banks, Civil Services, SAT / LSAT). For IELTS/TOEFL, and everyday spoken vocabulary, go to our Spoken Vocabulary Database.
Meaning
a small amount of money
- How to Memorize
- pittance - small
- Analysis
If you say that the money you received was only a ‘pittance’, then you are saying that it was a very small amount, and certainly, less than you feel you need and deserve. Can be used for effect.
Exam DB Spoken DB Other Synonyms modicum minuscule, derisory, Antonyms opulence overwhelming abundance, - Example(s)
The restaurant only pay me a pittance. I make most of my money from tips.
You’re earning fifty thousand a year, so stop complaining. It’s hardly a pittance, is it?
The market was saturated, so in the end we had to sell our crops for a pittance.
