Qualities
Synonyms for spare
Synonyms for spare: bare, trim, extra and plain. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 4 synonyms for spare
Interchangeable with spare, one per sense
Audited under spare's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one spare carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name spare as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
Two directions, one standard: two audited under spare and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
lacking in magnitude or quantity
A spare diet.
The true synonym
bare
Same sentence, swapped: A bare diet.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for spare in the sentence quoted.
- extra
- trim
- flat
thin and fit
The spare figure of a marathon runner.
The true synonym
trim
Same sentence, swapped: The trim figure of a marathon runner.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- extra
- bare
- flat
Where spare turns up in the game
spare is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where spare is the trap
- singleadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is exclusive, in the sense "not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective", so spare is there to be ruled out.
- freeadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is detached, in the sense "not fixed in position", with spare sitting one tile away.
- grantverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is accord, in the sense "allow to have", so spare is there to be ruled out.
- trimadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is shipshape, in the sense "characterized by order and neatness", so spare is there to be ruled out.
Play spare
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spare reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. spare carries 2 written reason lines, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.