spare

Adjective

• lacking embellishment or ornamentation
  • a plain hair style
    
  • unembellished white walls
    
  • functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
    

• lacking in amplitude or quantity
  • a bare livelihood
    
  • a scanty harvest
    
  • a spare diet
    

• kept in reserve especially for emergency use
  • a reserve supply of food
    
  • a spare tire
    
  • spare parts
    

• not taken up by scheduled activities
  • a free hour between classes
    
  • spare time on my hands
    

• more than is needed, desired, or required
  • 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
    

• thin and fit
  • the spare figure of a marathon runner
    
  • a body kept trim by exercise
    

Noun

• a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

• an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle

• an extra component of a machine or other apparatus

Verb

• use frugally or carefully

• give up what is not strictly needed
  • he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
    

• save or relieve from an experience or action
  • I'll spare you from having to apologize formally
    

• refrain from harming

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  plain , bare , unembellished , unornamented , bare(a) , scanty , free , excess , extra , redundant , supererogatory , superfluous , supernumerary , surplus , trim , fifth wheel , spare part , give up , part with , dispense with , save