Meaning

1 senses
  1. (obsolete)To disperse, to scatter.

Examples

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

  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.

Origin

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

Borrowed from Latin sparsus.

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Forms

sparses, sparsing, sparsed, sparsed
Base formsparse · to sparse
3rd person singularsparses
Present participlesparsing
Past simplesparsed
Past participlesparsed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysparse
he, she, itsparses

Past simpleLesson

all personssparsed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave sparsed
he, she, ithas sparsed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill sparse

Synonyms

33 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedsparsedly

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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