Food and drink
Synonyms for sparingly
Synonyms for sparingly: lightly and frugally. 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 2 synonyms for sparingly
Interchangeable with sparingly in this sense
Audited under sparingly's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one sparingly carries in that sense.
- lightlyadverb, in the sense "in a limited or restrained amount"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name sparingly as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- frugallyfrugally is an adverb in the sense "in a manner that uses money carefully and avoids waste"
The first group is filed under sparingly's own sense. The second reaches sparingly from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
in a limited or restrained amount
He seasoned the stew sparingly, letting the vegetables speak for themselves.
The true synonym
lightly
Same sentence, swapped: He seasoned the stew lightly, letting the vegetables speak for themselves.
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 sparingly in the sentence quoted.
- generously
- evenly
- finely
Where sparingly turns up in the game
sparingly is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where sparingly is the trap
- haphazardlyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is indiscriminately, in the sense "without any organization or plan", so sparingly is there to be ruled out.
- voraciouslyadverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is ravenously, in the sense "with great eagerness and appetite", with sparingly sitting one tile away.
- artfullyadverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is adroitly, in the sense "in a skillfully creative or clever manner, especially when making something", and sparingly is on the board beside it.
Play sparingly
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so sparingly reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because food and drink is the company sparingly keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. sparingly carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.