left over

Speech parts

1. left over - Adjective

2. left over - Verb

3. left over - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

not used up

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

left-over

Synonyms

left remaining odd leftover unexpended more over available beyond extra excess excessive surplus spare residual
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Antonyms

center far spent conservative exhausted right-hand
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Examples

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression. Sigmund Freud

Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Baltasar Gracián

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. Bertrand Russell

The promise of technology is to remove the division between culture and nature. Whatever part of nature that is left over as an independent force is covered by the technological bluff, which refers it to the agenda of the future and disguises the deficiencies of the present. Donald Phillip Verene

It is better to have bread left over than to run short of wine. Spanish Proverb

What's left over from the thief is spent on the fortune-teller. Yiddish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

left out left out in the cold left outer join left over from the past left palm left periphery