Dictionary Entry
spare
spare is a 5-letter English word with 32 senses as adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 32 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
- 2adjective
To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
- 3adjective
To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
- 4adjective
To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
- 5adjective
To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
- 6intransitive verb
To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
- 7intransitive verb
To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
- 8intransitive verb
To desist; to stop; to refrain.
- 9transitive verb
Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
- 10transitive verb
Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
- 11transitive verb
Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
- 12transitive verb
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
- 13transitive verb
Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
- 14transitive verb
Slow.
- 15noun
The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- 16noun
Parsimony; frugal use.
- 17noun
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- 18noun
That which has not been used or expended.
- 19noun
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.
- 20noun
a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
- 21noun
an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
- 22noun
an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- 23verb
use frugally or carefully
- 24verb
give up what is not strictly needed
"he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey"
- 25verb
refrain from harming
Synonyms
- 26verb
save or relieve from an experience or action
"I'll spare you from having to apologize formally"
- 27adjective
lacking embellishment or ornamentation
"a plain hair style"
"unembellished white walls"
- 28adjective
lacking in amplitude or quantity
"a bare livelihood"
"a scanty harvest"
- 29adjective
thin and fit
"the spare figure of a marathon runner"
"a body kept trim by exercise"
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- 30adjective
more than is needed, desired, or required
"trying to lose excess weight"
"found some extra change lying on the dresser"
- 31adjective
kept in reserve especially for emergency use
"a reserve supply of food"
"a spare tire"
- 32adjective
not taken up by scheduled activities
"a free hour between classes"
"spare time on my hands"
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