# sparer

Pronunciation: US say "SPAIR-ur" /ˈspɛəɹɚ/; UK say "SPAIR-er" /ˈspɛə(ɹ)ə/; AUS say "SPAIR-uh" /ˈspeːɹə/

## Adjective

1. Comparative of spare. — comparative form of spare: more spare
   - Simple: Comparative of spare. Use this to say one thing is more bare, plain, or simple than another.
   - _The renovated gallery felt sparer, its walls stripped of nearly all decoration._
   - _His later poems are sparer, trimming away every unnecessary word._

## Noun

2. A person or thing that refrains from harming, killing, punishing, or using something up.
   - Simple: A person or thing that chooses not to harm, punish, or use something up.
   - _The conquering general proved an unexpected sparer of the captured city's inhabitants._
   - _As a careful sparer of resources, the foreman let nothing on the site go to waste._

## Origin

Formed from "spare" combined with the suffix "-er".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/sparer (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).