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spareless

spareless adjective: unsparing.

Adjective

spareless (comparative more spareless, superlative most spareless)

  1. (archaic) Unsparing.
    • Too - soon expose thee not , to Sisters - spareless1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...
    • When all the friends that blessed his prime, Were vanished like a morning dream; Plucked one by one by spareless Time, And scatteredin oblivion's stream;1841, The Lyre: Fugitive Poetry of the Nineteenth Century, page 100
  2. Lacking a spare tire.
    • However, until the spareless car gains acceptance, spare tires will be provided on all the passenger cars.1957, Product Engineering - Volume 28, page 210
    • The purpose of your tire-patch package is to keep you on the road and keep you from being spareless after a puncture-flat.1970 December, Richard Day, “How to Set Up and Run Your Own Wheel/Tire Upkeep Center”, in Popular Science

Examples of spareless in a sentence

  • Since I carried only one spare, I had many an anxious moment running spareless on bald rubber .1973, John J. Byrne, Africa on Wheels: A Scrounger's Guide to Motoring in Africa, page 34:
  • A more reliable, spareless solution is the run-flat tire.2003, Car and Driver - Volume 48, page 13:

Forms of spareless

comparativemore spareless
superlativemost spareless

Origin of spareless

From spare + -less.

Questions about spareless

What does spareless mean?
Spareless means unsparing.
How do you use spareless in a sentence?
Since I carried only one spare, I had many an anxious moment running spareless on bald rubber .
What part of speech is spareless?
Spareless is an adjective.

Words near spareless in the dictionary

  1. spared no effort
  2. spared no expense
  3. spared someone the details
  4. spared someone's blushes
  5. spareful
  6. spareless
  7. sparely
  8. spareness
  9. sparenesses
  10. sparer
  11. sparerib

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