meager, scanty, scant, skimpy, spare, sparse mean falling short of what is normal, necessary, or desirable. meager implies the absence of elements, qualities, or numbers necessary to a thing's …

SPARE definition: 1. If something is spare, it is available to use because it is extra: 2. time when you are not…. Learn more.

SPARE definition: to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy. See examples of spare used in a sentence.

You use spare to describe something that is not being used by anyone, and is therefore available for someone to use. They don't have a lot of spare cash. The spare bedroom is on the second floor.

to refrain from, forbear, omit, or withhold, as action or speech: Spare us the gory details. to refrain from employing, as some instrument or recourse: to spare the rod.

Spare (bowling), knocking down all remaining pins with a second roll of a bowling ball Spare part Spare tire

Definition of spare adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

To allow (someone) to avoid experiencing or doing (something): spared myself the trouble of going to the store. 2. a. To hold back from; withhold or avoid: spared no expense for the celebration. b. To …

spare verb (PREVENT) to prevent someone from having to experience something unpleasant:

Some common synonyms of spare are gaunt, lanky, lank, lean, rawboned, scrawny, and skinny. While all these words mean "thin because of an absence of excess flesh," spare suggests leanness from …