sparingly

3 definitions found

sparingly - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

sparingly - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sparingly
      adv 1: 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, sparingly, slenderly, meagrely] [ant:
             amply, fully, richly]

sparingly - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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