Word Meanings - SPARING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. Bacon. -- Spar"ing*ly, adv. -- Spar"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPARING)

• Abstemious
• Abstinent
• moderate
• self-denying
• sober
• temperate
• sparing
• frugal
• Chary
• Careful
• cautions
• calculating
• shy
• wary
• slow
• saving
• reluctant
• Frugal
• Sparing
• economical
• parsimonious
• abstinent
• abstemious
• thrifty
• provident
• Moderate
• Limited
• calm
• dispassionate
• steady
• ordinary
• Scant
• Short
• insufficient
• mean
• niggardly
• stingy
• narrow
• limited
• chary

Related words: (words related to SPARING)

• SAVELY
  Safely. Chaucer.
• SPAR-HUNG
  Hung with spar, as a cave.
• INSUFFICIENTLY
  In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
• SPARPOIL
  To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• FRUGALNESS
  , n. Quality of being frugal; frugality.
• SAVORINESS
  The quality of being savory.
• SAVACIOUN
  Salvation.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• CHARYBDIS
  A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.
• FRUGALLY
  Thriftily; prudently.
• SAVINGLY
  1. In a saving manner; with frugality or parsimony. 2. So as to be finally saved from eternal death. Savingly born of water and the Spirit. Waterland.
• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SCANTLING
  Not plentiful; small; scanty. Jer. Taylor.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SAVOROUS
  Having a savor; savory. Rom. of R.
• DESPARPLE
  To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• MISAVIZE
  To misadvise.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• CORUSCANT
  Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.
• CESSAVIT
  A writ given by statute to recover lands when the tenant has for two years failed to perform the conditions of his tenure.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.