sparseadjective
uk/spɑːs/us/spɑːrs/small in numbers or amount, often spread over a large area:
a sparse population/audience
sparse vegetation/woodland
a sparse beard
Information coming out of the disaster area is sparse.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Scarce, inadequate and not enough
- be at a premium idiom
- be thin on the ground idiom
- dearth
- deficiency
- deficient
- gold dust
- lacking
- late
- long on sth and short on sth idiom
- lousy
- meagre
- measly
- nearly
- rare
- scarce
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortfall
- supply
- thin
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sparsely
adverb uk/ˈspɑːs.li/us/ˈspɑːrs.li/
sparsely furnished/populated
sparseness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈspɑːs.nəs/us/ˈspɑːrs.nəs/also sparsity, uk/ˈspɑː.sə.ti/us/ˈspɑːr.sə.t̬i/