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Definition of Sparingly
1. Adverb. To a meager degree or in a meager manner. "The area is slenderly endowed with natural resources"
Antonyms: Amply, Amply
Partainyms: Meager, Slender, Sparing
Definition of Sparingly
1. Adverb. In a sparing manner; with frugality, moderation, scantiness, reserve, forbearance, or the like; sparsely. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sparingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sparingly
Literary usage of Sparingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Physical Chemistry by Alexander Findlay (1920)
"Solubility of sparingly Soluble Salts.—Determinations of the conductivity may
also be employed, very advantageously, for the determination of the solubility ..."
2. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"Berlin, 1903, 28, 624), the guanidine thus obtained being isolated in the form
of its sparingly soluble picrate, and either weighed as such, or the nitrogen ..."
3. The Elements of Experimental Chemistry by William Henry (1831)
"Of the class of salts with alkaline, earthy, and metallic bases, alcohol dissolves
some copiously, others sparingly, and others not at all. ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... Erect and comparatively tall annual, with leaves sparingly if at all ...
linear.quitt entire, sparingly punctate with oil-glands: heads half-inch long, ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... steel and concrete are the most suitable materials of construction. Wood, even
if treated by some fireproofing process, should be sparingly employed. ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... It is obvious that the doctrine should be carefully and sparingly applied,
and only on the disclosure of clear and satisfactory grounds of Justice and ..."
7. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza (1883)
"In common conversation, too, he will avoid referring to the vices of men, and
will take care only sparingly to speak of human impotence, while he will talk ..."
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