remaining

adjective

re·​main·​ing ri-ˈmā-niŋ 

: left over after a part has been destroyed, taken, used, or lost

Dough should not stick to sides of bowl; if it does, add some or all of remaining 2 tablespoons of bread flour until dough cleans sides of bowl.

—Tish Boyle

"You're good people," Kugelmass said, combing his few remaining hairs as he climbed into the cabinet again.

—Woody Allen

The researchers, focusing on distinct oral languages, not dialects, interviewed and made recordings of the few remaining speakers of a language and collected basic word lists.

—John Noble Wilford

Examples of remaining in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

On paper, this is Liverpool’s easiest remaining fixture remaining by a distance. —Andy Jones, The Athletic, 18 Feb. 2025

The five remaining couples are: Casey O’Gorman and Gabby Allen, Catherine Agbaje and Omar Nyame, Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Curtis Pritchard, Elma Pazar and Sammy Root, and Grace Jackson and Luca Bish. —Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 17 Feb. 2025

This structure is located in the outer margin of the moon's largest and oldest remaining impact crater, the South Pole–Aitken basin, which measures about 1,490 miles wide (2,400 km) and dates about 4.2 billion to 4.3 billion years old. —Charles Q. Choi, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2025

But Wells Fargo’s biggest punishment remains in effect among its five remaining consent orders. —Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 4 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for remaining

• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining
• obtaining