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.

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 …

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.

You use spare to describe something that is the same as things that you are already using, but that you do not need yet and are keeping ready in case another one is needed.

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

Spare describes something that is extra. If you have a spare tire for your bike you can replace a flat, and if there's enough change in your pocket you can spare some to patch a friend's tire. As a noun, a …

• We've got a spare sleeping bag that you can borrow. • a precise, spare style of writing • We have two spare tickets for the game - do you want to come? • A lot of kids don't have enough to do in their …

SPARE meaning: 1 : kept as something extra that can be used if it is needed; 2 : available to be used in whatever way you want