spareness
81spare — ► ADJECTIVE 1) additional to what is required for ordinary use. 2) not currently in use or occupied. 3) with no excess fat; thin. 4) elegantly simple. ► NOUN ▪ an item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out. ►… …
82sparely — spare ► ADJECTIVE 1) additional to what is required for ordinary use. 2) not currently in use or occupied. 3) with no excess fat; thin. 4) elegantly simple. ► NOUN ▪ an item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out …
83spare rib — ► NOUN (usu. spare ribs) ▪ a trimmed rib of pork. ORIGIN probably a transposition of Low German ribbesper; also associated with SPARE(Cf. ↑spareness) …
84spare — [sper] vt. spared, sparing [ME sparien < OE sparian, akin to spær, thrifty, Ger sparen, to save: see SPACE] 1. to treat with mercy or leniency; refrain from killing, injuring, troubling, or distressing; save 2. to save or free a person from… …
85big-boned — adjective having a bone structure that is massive in contrast with the surrounding flesh • Similar to: ↑robust * * * ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : having the skeletal structure large and rugged in comparison to the fleshy parts : somewhat rawboned * * * …
86bodily property — noun an attribute of the body • Hypernyms: ↑property • Hyponyms: ↑bipedalism, ↑laterality, ↑dominance, ↑physique, ↑build, ↑body build, ↑habi …
87boniness — noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑bonyness, ↑emaciation, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate (for: ↑maceration), ↑ …
88bonyness — noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑boniness, ↑emaciation, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate (for: ↑maceration), ↑ …
89emaciation — noun extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) • Syn: ↑bonyness, ↑boniness, ↑gauntness, ↑maceration • Derivationally related forms: ↑macerate (for: ↑maceration), ↑ …
90exiguity — noun the quality of being meager an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes George Eliot • Syn: ↑meagerness, ↑meagreness, ↑leanness, ↑poorness, ↑scantiness, ↑scantness • Derivationally relat …
