Spareness

spare  (spâr)

v. spared, spar·ing, spares

v.tr.

1. To refrain from treating harshly; treat mercifully or leniently.

2. To refrain from harming or destroying.

3. To save or relieve from experiencing or doing (something): spared herself the trouble of going.

4. To hold back from; withhold or avoid: spared no expense for the celebration.

5. To use with restraint: Don't spare the mustard.

6. To give or grant out of one's resources; afford: Can you spare ten minutes?

v.intr.

1. To be frugal.

2. To refrain from inflicting harm; be merciful or lenient.

adj. spar·er, spar·est

1.

a. Kept in reserve: a spare part; a spare pair of sneakers.

b. Being in excess of what is needed; extra. See Synonyms at superfluous.

c. Free for other use; unoccupied: spare time.

2.

a. Not lavish, abundant, or excessive: a spare diet.

b. Lean and trim. See Synonyms at lean².

3. Not profuse or copious.

n.

1. A replacement, especially a tire, reserved for future need.

2. Sports

a. The act of knocking down all ten pins with two successive rolls of a bowling ball.

b. The score so made.

Idiom:

to spare

In addition to what is needed: We paid our bills and had money to spare.

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[Middle English sparen, from Old English sparian.]

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sparely adv.

spareness n.

sparer n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	spareness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness sparseness, sparsity, thinness exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, scantiness, scantness, poorness - the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
	2.	spareness - the property of having little body fat leanness, thinness bodily property - an attribute of the body scrawniness, skinniness - the bodily property of lacking flesh boniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) slimness, slenderness, slightness - the property of an attractively thin person wiriness - the property of being lean and tough and sinewy