Meaning

1 senses
  1. In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.

    a sparsely populated region

More definitions
  • in a sparse way

Examples

14 sentences
  1. The moor is very sparsely inhabited.

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  2. The region is large, but sparsely populated.

    ruЭта местность обширна, но мало населена.

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  3. The region is enormous, but sparsely populated.

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  4. Algeria's desert regions are very sparsely populated.

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  5. The region was a sparsely populated steppe.

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Translations

2 languages

Forms

more sparsely, most sparsely
Comparativemore sparsely Lesson
Superlativemost sparsely

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Relatedsparse

See also

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