Sparingly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sparing \Spar"ing\, a.
     Spare; saving; frugal; merciful. --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster] -- {Spar"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Spar"ing*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  sparingly
       adv : to a meager degree or in a meager manner; "these voices are
             meagerly represented at the conference"; "the area is
             slenderly endowed with natural resources" [syn: {meagerly},
              {slenderly}, {meagrely}] [ant: {amply}, {amply}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "sparingly":
     cannily, carefully, charily, economically, frugally, husbandly,
     in moderation, meagerly, moderately, poorly, providently,
     prudently, punily, scantily, slightly, sparely, sparsely,
     stintingly, temperately, thin, thriftily, within bounds,
     within compass