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sparing

Main Entry:
sparing [spair-ing]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, economical
Synonyms: avaricious, canny, chary, close, cost-conscious, frugal, humane, mean, money-conscious, parsimonious, provident, prudent, saving, stewardly, stingy, thrifty, tight, tight-fisted, tolerant, ungiving, unwasteful, wary
Antonyms: careless, lavish, spendthrift, uncareful
Main Entry: spare
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: forgive; have mercy upon
Synonyms: absolve, bail out, be lenient, be merciful, discharge, dispense, excuse, exempt, forbear, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, give quarter to, go easy on, leave, let go, let off, pardon, pity, privilege from, pull out of the fire, refrain from, release, relent, relieve from, save bacon, save from, save neck, spring
Main Entry: abstemious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: restraining behavior or appetite
Synonyms: abstinent, ascetic, austere, continent, frugal, moderate, moderating, restrained, self-denying, self-restrained, sober, sparing, temperate
Antonyms: gluttonous, greedy, hungry
Main Entry: chary
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careful, cautious
Synonyms: cagey, calculating, canny, circumspect, considerate, constrained, discreet, economical, fastidious, frugal, gingerly, guarded, heedful, hesitant, inhibited, leery, loath, miserly, particular, prudent, reluctant, restrained, safe, scrupulous, sparing, stingy, suspicious, thrifty, uneasy, wary, watchful
Antonyms: careless, hasty, heedless, incautious, rash, uncareful, willing
Main Entry: compassionate
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having tender feelings
Synonyms: all heart, being big, benevolent, bleeding heart, charitable, commiserative, forbearing, going easy on, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, living with, merciful, old softie, piteous, pitying, responsive, soft shell, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted
Antonyms: cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous
Main Entry: economical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conservative with resources; careful
Synonyms: avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, time-saving, unwasteful, watchful, work-saving
Notes: economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources'
Antonyms: careless, expensive, uncareful, uneconomical, wasteful
Main Entry: frugal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: economical
Synonyms: Spartan, abstemious, canny, careful, chary, conserving, discreet, meager, meticulous, mingy, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, preserving, provident, prudent, saving, scrimping, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, tightwad, unwasteful, wary
Notes: frugal refers more directly to practicing economy in the course of shopping for goods or services, whereas thrifty applies more to the preservation of funds
Antonyms: generous, lavish, spendthrifty, uneconomical, wasteful
Main Entry: lenient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: permissive
Synonyms: allowing, amiable, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benign, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, excusing, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, good-natured, humoring, indulgent, kind, kindly, letting, live with, loving, merciful, mild, mollycoddling, obliging, pampering, pardoning, permitting, soft, soft-shell, softhearted, sparing, spoiling, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding
Antonyms: hard, intolerant, limiting, restrictive, rigorous, severe
Main Entry: parsimonious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: penny-pinching
Synonyms: avaricious, chintzy, close, frugal, greedy, illiberal, mean, miserly, penurious, prudent, saving, scrimpy, selfish, skinflint, sparing, stingy*, tight*, tightfisted, tightwad
Antonyms: generous, lavish, liberal
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