Spare

Adjective

 * 1) scanty; not abundant or plentiful.
 * a spare diet
 * 1) sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
 * 2) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
 * I have no spare time.
 * 1) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
 * 2) lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
 * 3) slow

Derived terms

 * go spare
 * spare part
 * spare time
 * spare tire
 * spare tyre
 * spare wheel

Noun

 * 1) The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
 * 2) Parsimony; frugal use.
 * 3) An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
 * 4) That which has not been used or expended.
 * 5) A spare part, especially a spare tire.
 * 6)  The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
 * 7)  The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.

Verb

 * 1)  To desist; to stop; to refrain.
 * 2)  To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
 * 3)  To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy.
 * 4) * 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island
 * Kill me, if you please, or spare me.
 * 1)  To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
 * 2)  To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
 * 3)  To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
 * 4)  To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

Adverbs for Spare
mercifully; generously; benevolently; willingly; voluntarily; magnanimously; nobly; benignantly.

Thesaurus
Lenten, Scotch, Spartan, abandon, abjure, absolve, abstain, abstain from, abstemious, accessory, additional, afford, agent, allow, alternate, alternative, amnesty, analogy, ancillary, angular, another, as a bonus, ascetic, austere, auxiliary, avoid, award, backup, balance, bald, bare, basic, bear, bestow, bonus, bony, cadaverous, candid, canny, careful, casual, cede, change, changeling, chary, chaste, cheeseparing, collateral, common, commonplace, comparison, conserve, conserved, conserving, contributory, copy, copyright, counterfeit, de trop, deliver, deputy, direct, discharge, disgorge, dispensable, dispense, dispense from, dispense with, dispose of, dividend, do without, donate, double, drop, dry, dull, dummy, dump, dwarfed, dwarfish, economic, economizing, elementary, endure, equal, equivalent, ersatz, eschew, essential, except, excess, exchange, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exiguous, exonerate, expendable, expletive, extra, fake, farther, fill-in, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, for lagniappe, forbear, forehanded, forgive, forgo, forsake, forswear, frank, free, fresh, frugal, fundamental, further, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, get along without, get rid of, ghost, ghostwriter, give, give absolution, give away, give dispensation from, give quarter, give up, grant amnesty to, grant forgiveness, grant immunity, grant remission, gratuitous, gratuity, guard, have done with, have mercy upon, have pity, held, held back, held in reserve, held out, hold, hold aloof from, hold back, hold off, homely, homespun, homogeneous, idle, imitation, impoverished, in abeyance, in addition, in excess, in hand, in reserve, incidental, indivisible, irreducible, jejune, keep, keep alive, keep back, keep from, keep in hand, keep intact, keep inviolate, keep safe, keep up, kept, kiss good-bye, labor-saving, lagniappe, lank, lanky, lay aside, lay away, lay by, lay in, lay up, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, left, leftover, leisure, leisured, let alone, let go, let go by, let have, let off, let up on, liberate, limited, locum tenens, maintain, make a sacrifice, makeshift, margin, matter-of-fact, meager, mean, melt, mere, metaphor, metonymy, mint, miserly, mock, modest, money-saving, monolithic, more, more than enough, narrow, natural, neat, needless, net, never touch, new, next best thing, niggardly, nonessential, not destroy, not endanger, not expend, not touch, not use, not use up, not waste, occasional, odd, of a piece, off, open, original, other, out-of-the-way, outstanding, over, over and above, overage, overmeasure, overplus, overrun, overset, overstock, oversupply, paltry, pardon, parsimonious, part with, part-time, pass up, patent, penny-wise, personnel, phony, pinch, pinch hitter, plain, plain-speaking, plain-spoken, pleonastic, plus, poor, pourboire, preserve, preserved, primal, primary, pristine, prolix, prosaic, prosing, prosy, protect, provident, provisional, proxy, prudent, prudential, puny, pure, pure and simple, put aside, put by, quitclaim, rawboned, recant, redeem, redundant, refrain, refrain from, register, relax, release, relent, relief, relieve, relinquish, remainder, remaining, remanent, remise, remit, render up, renounce, replacement, representative, reprieve, rescue, reserve, reserved, reserves, resign, retained, retired, retract, ringer, rustic, sacrifice, salt away, save, save the necessity, saved, saving, scant, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, second string, secondary, semiretired, severe, short, shrive, shun, side, sign, simon-pure, simple, simple-speaking, single, skeletal, skimp, skimping, skimpy, skinny, slender, slight, slim, small, sober, something extra, spare the price, spares, sparing, sparse, spidery, spindling, spindly, stand, stand aloof from, stand-in, stark, starvation, stingy, stint, stinted, stopgap, stored, straightforward, straitened, stunted, sub, subsistence, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, superseder, supplanter, supplemental, supplementary, support, surplus, surplusage, surrender, surrogate, surviving, suspended, sustain, swear off, symbol, synecdoche, take pity on, tautologic, tautologous, temporary, tentative, thaw, thin, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, third string, thrifty, throw up, tide, time-saving, tip, to spare, token, twiggy, ulterior, unadorned, unaffected, unapplied, unbeaten, uncalled-for, uncluttered, unconsumed, undergo, undersized, understudy, underweight, undifferenced, undifferentiated, unemployed, unessential, unexercised, unexpended, unhandled, uniform, unimaginative, unnecessary, unneeded, unnourishing, unnutritious, unoccupied, unpoetical, unspent, untapped, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized, unvarnished, unwasteful, uphold, utility, utility player, vacate, verbose, vicar, vicarious, vice-president, vice-regent, waive, waived, watered, watery, well afford, wiry, withheld, withhold, yield

Etymology 1
, from spær: 'sparing, scant', from  (cf. Dutch spaarzaam:zaam, German spärlich:lich, Icelandic sparr:), from  (cf. Latin proprosper: ‘lucky’, Old Church Slavonic undefined: ‘plentiful’, Albanian shperr: ‘to earn money’, Ancient Greek undefined: ‘rare’, Sanskrit undefined: ‘thick’).

Etymology 2
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Adjective

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 * Russian: умеренный, скудный


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 * French:
 * Russian: запасной


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Verb

 * Dutch:

Anagrams

 * apres, après, aprés
 * asper, as per
 * pares
 * parse
 * pears
 * præs.
 * rapes
 * reaps
 * RESPA
 * spear

Noun

 * 1)  spare the act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame

Verb

 * 1) save
 * 2) spare
 * 3) economize
 * 4) save up

Etymology 1
From spare:.

Etymology 2
From spara:.

Verb
spare



Anagrams

 * aspre, parse, persa, presa, saper, spera