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单词 spareness
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spareness


spare

S0605000 (spâr)tr.v. spared, spar·ing, spares 1. a. To refrain from harming, injuring, destroying, or killing: The general spared the city from a bombardment.b. To leave undamaged or unharmed: The oldest trees in the forest were spared from the fire.c. To refrain from denouncing or distressing; treat leniently or with consideration: The teacher spared the student's feelings by not criticizing her.d. 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 use or supply with restraint: Don't spare the mustard.3. To give or grant out of one's resources; afford: Can you spare ten minutes?adj. spar·er, spar·est 1. a. Kept in reserve: spare parts.b. Being in excess of what is needed; extra: spare cash.c. Free for other use; unoccupied: spare time.2. a. Not lavish, abundant, or excessive; meager: a spare breakfast.b. Lean and trim: a runner with a spare figure.c. Not elaborate or ornate; simple: a writer's spare style.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.
[Middle English sparen, from Old English sparian.]
spare′ly adv.spare′ness n.spar′er n.
Thesaurus
Noun1.spareness - the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking densenesssparseness, sparsity, thinnessexiguity, 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 fatleanness, thinnessbodily property - an attribute of the bodyscrawniness, skinniness - the bodily property of lacking fleshboniness, bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration - extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)slimness, slenderness, slightness - the property of an attractively thin personwiriness - the property of being lean and tough and sinewy
EncyclopediaSeespare

spareness


  • noun

Synonyms for spareness

noun the property of being scanty or scattered

Synonyms

  • sparseness
  • sparsity
  • thinness

Related Words

  • exiguity
  • leanness
  • meagerness
  • meagreness
  • scantiness
  • scantness
  • poorness

noun the property of having little body fat

Synonyms

  • leanness
  • thinness

Related Words

  • bodily property
  • scrawniness
  • skinniness
  • boniness
  • bonyness
  • emaciation
  • gauntness
  • maceration
  • slimness
  • slenderness
  • slightness
  • wiriness
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