Sparse
Thinly dispersed or scattered; not dense or abundant.
adjectiveSparse
Thinly dispersed or scattered; not dense or abundant.
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Imagine This
Picture a desert plain where cacti appear only here and there, with long stretches of bare sand between them.
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Sounds Like
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Looks Like
A landscape with widely spaced trees or patches of ground, showing low density.
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Remember This
Sparse means not dense or plentiful; think of objects spread far apart, as in a sparsely populated town or a sparse forest after a fire.
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Other Forms
sparselyadverb
sparsitynoun
sparsifyverb
sparseradjective
sparsestadjective
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Connect With
dense, abundant, plentiful, scattered, thinly distributed
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Note
Do not confuse with 'spare' (extra). In data contexts, 'sparse' describes many gaps or missing values; 'sparse data' means information is not densely present.