Unsparing

Definition: Unsparing

Unsparing

Adjective

1. Very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain".

2. Not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic".

Date "unsparing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Note: Unsparing \Un*spar"ing\, adjective. [Prefix un- not sparing, present participle of spare.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Unsparing

Synonyms: lavish (adj), munificent (adj), overgenerous (adj), prodigal (adj), too-generous (adj), unstinted (adj), unstinting (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Liberality	Adjective: liberal, free, generous; charitable; (beneficent); hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome; unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent, princely.
Prodigality	Adverb: with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.
Severity	Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.
Sufficiency	Full.; (complete); ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding; Verb: replete, enough and to spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal; unstinted, unstinting; stintless; without stint; unsparing, unmeasured; lavish; wholesale.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unsparing

English words defined with "unsparing": scathingly, severe, Spareless, Spartan, strict ♦ unsparingly. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Body Mike: An Unsparing Expose by the Mafia Insider Who Turned on the Mob (True Crime Library) (reference) The Unsparing Scourge: Australian Satirical Texts (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Unsparing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 77.78% of the time. "Unsparing" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	77.78%	7	133,076
Adjective (general or positive)	22.22%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	9	N/A

Expressions using "unsparing": ad with an unsparing hand ♦ be unsparing in ♦ be unsparing in smb.'s efforts ♦ be unsparing with smth.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unsparing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i zellshëm (diligent, hard, industrious, laborious, sedulous, strenuous, studious, zealous), i pakursyer (prodigal, unthrifty). (various references)

Bulgarian		разточителен (extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, prodigal, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, sumptuous, superfluous, thriftless, uneconomic, unthrifty, wanton, wasteful), щедър (benevolent, bountiful, charitable, flush, free, freehanded, generous, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, liberal, lordly, munificent, openhanded, pickwickian, princely, prodigal, profuse, stintless, ungrudging, unselfish, unstinted), безмилостен (cutthroat, flinty, hard, merciless, relentless, remorseless, unmerciful, unpitying), безпощаден (tough). (various references)

Czech		velkorysý (benevolent, big, broad, broadminded, charitable, generous, gracious, high minded, liberal, noble-minded, ungrudging), nemilosrdný (hard-hearted, heartless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, ungracious, unmerciful), štìdrý (bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, generous, handsome, large handed, large-hearted, lavish, munificent, open handed, open-hearted, profuse, unguarded). (various references)

Farsi		فراوان (Abundant, Affluent, Ample, Bounteous, Copious, Exuberant, Galore, Plenty, Profuse, Prolific, Rampant, Rife, Superabundant, Very), اسراف کننده , ظالم (Cruel, Despot, Grim, Heinous, Incubus, Remorseless, Ruthless, Wroth), بی دریغ . (various references)

French		prodigue, généreux (ungrudging, unselfish). (various references)

German		schonungslos (blunt, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, savage, savagely, scathing, scathingly, uncharitable, unrelenting, unsparingly). (various references)

Greek		αμείλικτοσ (deadly, inexorable, relentless), αφειδήσ (lavish, profuse). (various references)

Hungarian		pazarló (lavish, lavisher, lavishing, prodigal, spendthrift, squanderer, squandering, thriftless, to go the pace, unthrifty, wasteful, waster, wasting, wastrel). (various references)

Indonesian		tak tanggung jawab. (various references)

Italian		prodigo (extravagant, flush, lavish, prodigal, spendthrift, thriftless). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		酷しい (relentless, rigid, severe, strict). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きびしい (austere, grave, intense, majestic, relentless, rigid, severe, solemn, stern, strict). (various references)

Pig Latin		aringunspay

Portuguese		pródigo (extravagant, large, lavish, prodigal, profuse, spendthrift, thriftless, unthrifty, wanton), liberal (boon, bounteous, broad-minded, enlarged, generous, lavish, liberal, ungrudging), implacável (bitter, conflicting, irreconcilable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, unmerciful, unrelenting), impiedoso (flinty, grim, heartless, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unrelenting), generoso (big heart, boon, bounteous, chivalrous, enlarged, flush, generous, large, large-handed, large-hearted, large-minded, lavish, magnanimous, open-handed, selfless, soft-hearted, ungrudging, unselfish, warm-hearted, whole-souled), abundante (abundant, abundantly, ample, bounteous, chock-full, copious, flush, frequent, full, generous, large, lumping, numerous, opulent, philoprogenitive, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, prolific, rich, teeming, thick-set, wanton). (various references)

Russian		расточительный (extravagant, improvident, lavish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful), беспощадный (inexpiable, merciless, remorseless, unmerciful). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		obilan (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, flush, full, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, profuse, torrential), neštedljiv (unthrifty). (various references)

Spanish		incansable (indefatigable, tireless, unfatiguing, unflagging, untirable, unweary), generoso (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, generosity, generous, liberal, munificent, noble-minded, open handed, rich, selfless, ungrudging), despiadado (cutthroat, dispiteous, flint hearted, inhumane, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unkind, unmerciful, unremorseful). (various references)

Swedish		skoningslös (merciless, pitiless), generös (big, big hearted, free-handed, free-hearted, generous, handsome, large, large handed, lavish, liberal, open handed, ungrudging, unstinted, unstinting), frikostig (bounteous, bountiful, free, freehanded, free-handed, handsome, large, lavish, liberal, munificencent, munificent, open handed, prodigal). (various references)

Turkish		kıyan, esirgemeyen (ungrudging), cömert (big hearted, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, flush, freehanded, freehearted, generous, handsome, large handed, liberal, munificent, open handed, openhanded, profuse, ungrudging), bol (abounding, abundant, affluent, ample, baggy, bounteous, bountiful, broad, claret cup, copious, effusive, exuberant, fecund, flush, full, generous, handsome, hearty, hefty, lavish, liberal, loose, lots of, lush, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, profuse, rank, rich, riotous, unstinted, wealthy, wide), bitmek bilmez. (various references)

Ukrainian		нещадний (mortal, remorseless, slashing), марнотратний (expensive, extravagant, improvident, lavish, luxurious, pound-foolish, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, wasteful), завзятий (audacious, daring, fervent, mettled, mettlesome, pertinacious, proud, stubborn). (various references)

Vietnamese		không thưng, không tha thứ không tiết kiệm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "unsparing": unsparingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Unsparing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unaspiring, unspooling. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "unsparing" (pronounced unspe"ring)
6	-s p e" r i ng	despairing, sparing.
5	-p e" r i ng	comparing, impairing, pairing, paring, preparing, repairing.
4	-e" r i ng	airing, baring, bearing, blaring, caring, chairing, daring, declaring, flaring, glaring, haring, herring, overbearing, scaring, sharing, snaring, squaring, staring, swearing, tearing, uncaring, Waring, wearing.
3	-r i ng	acquiring, adhering, admiring, adoring, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, barring, bioengineering, boring, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, conspiring, curing, deploring, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, exploring, fearing, firing, flooring, gearing, Goring, hearing, hiring, ignoring, imploring, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, outpouring, overhearing, overpowering, peering, perspiring, pioneering, poring, pouring, premiering, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, restoring, retiring, roaring, scarring, scoring, searing, securing, shearing, shoring, smearing, sneering, snoring, soaring, sparring, Spearing, starring, steering, stevedoring, storing, tarring, tiring, touring, underscoring, uninspiring, veering, volunteering, warring, wiring.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-r-s-u"
	-1 letter: spurning.
	-2 letters: guanins, nursing, parings, parsing, pausing, pinangs, pruning, pursing, rasping, snaring, sparing.
	-3 letters: grains, guanin, inspan, inurns, paring, pignus, pinang, pinnas, prangs, purins, raping, rasing, saning, sannup, sprain, sprang, spring, sprung, spuing, unpins, unrigs, unrips, unsnap.
	-4 letters: airns, aping, argus, auris, gains, garni, gaurs, girns, gnars, grain, grans, grasp, grins, grips, guans, guars.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-n-n-p-r-s-u"
	+2 letters: unsparingly, unstrapping.
	+3 letters: repugnancies.
	+4 letters: prussianising, prussianizing.
	+5 letters: septuagenarian, superabounding, superannuating, superhardening, underpaintings.
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