Informal .

contemptibly small, meager, or slight

They paid me a measly fifteen dollars for a day's work.

wretchedly bad or unsatisfactory

a measly performance.

infected with measles, as an animal or its flesh.

pertaining to or resembling measles.

adjective

abundant , plenty , proficient , satisfactory , sufficient

adjective

beggarly , contemptible , insignificant , meager , mean , miserable , miserly , niggling * , paltry , pathetic , petty , picayune , piddling * , pitiful , poor , puny , scanty , stingy , trifling , trivial , ungenerous , unimportant , valueless , worthless , exiguous , scant , skimpy , spare , sparse , thin , inconsiderable , negligible , niggling , nugatory , piddling , small , small-minded