Definition of Spare

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Definition of Spare

Spare

To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.

To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.

To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.

To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.

To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.

To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.

To desist; to stop; to refrain.

Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.

Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.

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.

Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.

Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.

Slow.

The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.

Parsimony; frugal use.

An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.

That which has not been used or expended.

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.

Related Definitions:

Above, Abundant, Act, After, Again, All, An, Anchor, And, Are, As, At, Be, Bed, Been, Being, Bowl, Bowling, Bowls, By, Chary, Danger, Deprive, Desist, Diet, Dispense, Do, Double, Down, Duty, Emergency, Expended, Flesh, Forbear, Forbearance, From, Frugal, Frugality, Frugally, Full, Gain, Gaunt, Give, Gown, Harm, Have, Having, Held, Has, If, Impart, In, Inflicting, Injure, Is, It, Keep, Knocked, Lean, Less, Live, Meager, Mercy, Moderation, Must, Necessary, No, Not, Occupation, Of, One, Opening, Or, Over, Parsimonious, Parsimony, Part, Petticoat, Placket, Plentiful, Preserve, Profuse, Punish, Punishment, Refrain, Reserve, Reserved, Restraint, Retain, Right, Room, Save, Scanty, Scarce, Self, Set, Show, Single, Slow, Some, Spare, Sparing, Stop, Superfluous, Than, That, The, Thin, Three, Time, To, Two, Unused, Up, Use, Used, Valuable, Wanted, Wanting, What, Which, With, Without

Spare Quotations

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

Spare no expense to save money on this one.
Samuel Goldwyn

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Josh Billings

I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers.
George Armstrong Custer

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.
Vladimir Nabokov

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman

Spare Translations

spare in Afrikaans is bespaar, spaar
spare in Danish is spare
spare in Dutch is ontzien, sparen
spare in Italian is tempo libero
spare in Latin is parco, tempero
spare in Portuguese is sobressalentes
spare in Swedish is spara, bespara, avvara, skona

Quotes