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spare
Synonyms and Antonyms of spare
- I had some spare time to kill, so I cleaned up my cubicle a bit.
- a man who is kind and gentle but definitely spare of speech
altruistic, selfless, unselfish
extravagant, lavish, overgenerous, profuse
beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical)
compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openhearted
dissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting
- a tall, spare man
- spare vegetation that made foraging very difficult
thin on the ground
Synonym Discussion of spare
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- a lean racehorse
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- the gymnast's spare figure
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- the lank legs of the heron
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- a lanky youth, all arms and legs
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- a prisoner's gaunt face
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- a rawboned farmer
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- a scrawny chicken
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- skinny street urchins
spare
Synonyms and Antonyms of spare
- We promptly replaced the burnt-out lightbulb with a spare.
spare
Synonyms and Antonyms of spare
- I'll have a banana split—and don't spare the whipped cream!
- She had grown up during the Great Depression, so she was no stranger to sparing.
pinch pennies
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