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spareadjective being over what is neededI had some spare time to kill, so I cleaned up my cubicle a bit excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus accessory, additional, supplemental, supplementaryde trop, dispensable, extraneous, gratuitous, needless, nonessential, uncalled-for, unessential, unnecessary, unneeded, unwantedabundant, ample, bountiful, copious, plenteous, plentiful deficient, inadequate, insufficient, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, short, shortish, skimpy, sparse giving or sharing as little as possiblea man who is kind and gentle but definitely spare of speech cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting having a noticeably small amount of body fata tall, spare man bony(also boney), fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim, svelte, thin clean-limbed, trimsylphlike, willowyangular, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, sinewy, wirylank, lanky, rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, twiggy, waspish, weedyanorectic(also anoretic), anorexic, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted, wizenedmeager(or meagre), puny, slight chubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly, rotund, tubby beefy, bulky, chunky, fleshy, heavy, heavyset, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weightybrawny, burly, huskydumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, squat, stubbypaunchy, potbelliedflabby, softbuxom, zaftig(also zoftig)full, hippy, round less plentiful than what is normal, necessary, or desirablespare vegetation that made foraging very difficult exiguous, hand-to-mouth, light, meager(or meagre), niggardly, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, sparing, sparse, stingy deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, short, wantingbare, bare-bonesleast, littlest, lowest, mere, minimal, slightestslight, small, thinbarren, infertile, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive thin on the ground abundant, ample, bountiful, copious, generous, liberal, plenteous, plentiful adequate, enough, satisfactory, sufficient, tolerablefat, fecund, fertile, fruitful, prolific, richlavish, luxuriantblooming, bursting, flourishing, proliferative, swarming, teeming, thrivingexcess, extra, surplus an interchangeable part or piece of equipment that is kept on hand for replacement of an originalwe promptly replaced the burnt-out lightbulb with a spare extra, reserve backup, substitutestockcarbon copy, clone, copy, double, dummy, dupe, duplicate, replacement, replica, replication, reproduction archetype, original, prototype to use or give out in stingy amountsI'll have a banana split—and don't spare the whipped cream nurse, scant, skimp (on), stint (on) dole out, mete (out), portion (out), ration (out)pinch, shortchangeconserve, preserve heap, lavish, pour, rain, shower to avoid unnecessary waste or expenseshe had grown up during the Great Depression, so she was no stranger to sparing economize, pinch, save, scrimp, skimp conserve, husband, maintain, manage, preservescrapecut back, cut down, retrenchhoard, lay up pinch pennies waste blow, dissipate, fritter (away), lavish, misspend, run through, spend, squander, throw awaysplurge adj.lean, spare, lank, lanky, gaunt, rawboned, scrawny, skinny mean thin because of an absence of excess flesh.lean stresses lack of fat and of curving contours.a lean racehorse spare suggests leanness from abstemious living or constant exercise.the gymnast's spare figure lank implies tallness as well as leanness.the lank legs of the heron lanky suggests awkwardness and loose-jointedness as well as thinness.a lanky youth, all arms and legs gaunt implies marked thinness or emaciation as from overwork or suffering.a prisoner's gaunt face rawboned suggests a large ungainly build without implying undernourishment.a rawboned farmer scrawny and skinny imply an extreme leanness that suggests deficient strength and vitality.a scrawny chicken skinny street urchins before the 12th century |