Spare Meaning and Definition

Word: Spare

How to pronounce: speə

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Additional to what is required for ordinary use.

Example sentences: "Few people had spare cash for inessentials"

2. With no excess fat; thin.

Example sentences: "A spare, bearded figure"

3. Elegantly simple.

Example sentences: "Her clothes are smart and spare in style"

Noun

Definitions:

1. An item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out.

Example sentences: "The wheel's broken and it would be suicide to go on without a spare"

2. (in tenpin bowling) an act of knocking down all the pins with two consecutive rolls of the ball.

Example sentences: "I threw a gutter ball, screwing up my spare from the frame before."

Verb

Definitions:

1. Give (something of which one has enough) to (someone); afford to give to.

Example sentences: "She asked if I could spare her a dollar or two"

2. Refrain from killing, injuring, or distressing.

Example sentences: "There was no way the men would spare her"

3. Be frugal.

Synonyms:

replacement part

repair part

spares

replacement

feel sorry

be sorry

feeling sorry

skimp

save

scrimp

stint

superfluous

redundant

extra

excess

surplus

skinny

free

thin

lean

slim

slender

scant

skimpy

poor

scarce

stingy

miserly

Antonyms:

ample

main

Derivations:

spared

sparing

spar

sparely

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Spare in Other Languages...

Spanish: Repuesto

German: Ersatzteile

French: Rechange

Italian: Ricambio

Turkish: Yedek