Meaning

3 senses
  1. Having widely spaced intervals.

    a sparse array, index, or matrix

    spärlich

    ре́дкийrédkij

    рідки́йridkýj

  2. Not dense; meager; scanty

    spärlich, dünn

    ре́дкийrédkij

    not dense

  3. Having few nonzero elements

    разрежённыйrazrežónnyj

Examples

6 sentences
  1. Kalman was walking in the sparse woods.

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  2. It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.

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  3. With sparse exceptions, drug trafficking gangs tend to align politically with the right.

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  4. The vegetation changes and becomes sparser as temperatures rise and conditions get drier.

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  5. His hair is sparse.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
having widely spaced intervals:
Русский
By meaning 2
having widely spaced intervals:
having few nonzero elements:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
having widely spaced intervals:
not dense; meager:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

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Forms

sparser, sparsest
Comparativesparser Lesson
Superlativesparsest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
having widely spaced intervals:spread out
Close in meaning

Word family

15 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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