| reserved | | |
| adj. | 1. reserved | set aside for the use of a particular person or party. |
| ~ booked, set-aside, engaged | reserved in advance. |
| ~ bookable | subject to being reserved or booked.; "all seats bookable in advance" |
| adj. | 2. reserved | marked by self-restraint and reticence.; "was habitually reserved in speech, withholding her opinion" |
| ~ backward | (used of temperament or behavior) marked by a retiring nature.; "a backward lover" |
| ~ undemonstrative | not given to open expression of emotion. |
| ~ inhibited | held back or restrained or prevented.; "in certain conditions previously inhibited conditioned reactions can reappear" |
| ~ aloof, upstage, distant | remote in manner.; "stood apart with aloof dignity"; "a distant smile"; "he was upstage with strangers" |
| ~ diffident | showing modest reserve.; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture" |
| ~ indrawn, withdrawn | tending to reserve or introspection.; "a quiet indrawn man" |
| ~ restrained | under restraint. |
| spare | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. spare, spare part | an extra component of a machine or other apparatus. |
| ~ constituent, element, component | an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system.; "spare components for cars"; "a component or constituent element of a system" |
| n. (artifact) | 2. fifth wheel, spare | an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle. |
| ~ car wheel | a wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap; used to propel the car. |
| n. (act) | 3. spare | a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls. |
| ~ score | the act of scoring in a game or sport.; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" |
| v. (social) | 4. save, spare | refrain from harming. |
| ~ favour, favor | treat gently or carefully. |
| ~ refrain, forbear | resist doing something.; "He refrained from hitting him back"; "she could not forbear weeping" |
| v. (social) | 5. spare | save or relieve from an experience or action.; "I'll spare you from having to apologize formally" |
| ~ exempt, relieve, free | grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.; "She exempted me from the exam" |
| v. (possession) | 6. dispense with, give up, part with, spare | give up what is not strictly needed.; "he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey" |
| ~ give | transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody.; "I gave her my money"; "can you give me lessons?"; "She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care" |
| v. (consumption) | 7. spare | use frugally or carefully. |
| ~ expend, use | use up, consume fully.; "The legislature expended its time on school questions" |
| adj. | 8. spare, trim | thin and fit.; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise" |
| ~ lean, thin | lacking excess flesh.; "you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look" |
| adj. | 9. excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus | 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" |
| ~ unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary. |
| adj. | 10. free, spare | not taken up by scheduled activities.; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" |
| ~ unoccupied | not held or filled or in use.; "an unoccupied telephone booth"; "unoccupied hours" |
| adj. | 11. spare | kept in reserve especially for emergency use.; "a reserve supply of food"; "a spare tire"; "spare parts" |
| ~ unnecessary, unneeded | not necessary. |
| adj. | 12. bare, scanty, spare | lacking in amplitude or quantity.; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet" |
| ~ meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy, stingy | deficient in amount or quality or extent.; "meager resources"; "meager fare" |
| adj. | 13. bare, plain, spare, unembellished, unornamented | lacking embellishment or ornamentation.; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete" |
| ~ unadorned, undecorated | not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction. |
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