Minute and Spare

Minute

Minute adjective - Including many small descriptive features.

Spare and minute are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Minute".

Nearby Words: minutely, minuteness, minuted, minuting

Spare

Spare adjective - Being over what is needed.

Minute and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Minute" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Talking Is a Free Action You can defeat the boss with only one minute to spare, at which point another multi-minute-long cutscene happens, with no MiGs in sight until you're attempting to escape another 5+ minutes later.
  • Leave the Camera Running However, instead of using only one frame of a plate of spare ribs, he uses a five-minute-long static shot of the plate of spare ribs, thinking that its effectiveness would be proportional to the length of time it was shown.
  • Literature / The Count of Monte Cristo Averted at the last minute—Mercedes intervenes with both and stops the duel by getting Dantes to promise to spare her son, and by explaining to Albert why the Count wants to take down Morcerf.
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