noun
- Someone who refrains from injuring or destroying.
adjective
- Thin and fit.
- usage: "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
- More than is needed, desired, or required.
- usage: "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy"
- synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus
- Not taken up by scheduled activities.
- usage: "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
- Kept in reserve especially for emergency use.
- usage: "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts"
- synonyms: spare
- Lacking in amplitude or quantity.
- usage: "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet"
- Lacking embellishment or ornamentation.
- usage: "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- synonyms: plain, bare, spare, unembellished, unornamented
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