sparse
/spɑrs/ adj [-er/-est only]Definition
› small in number or amount and not dense or close together: plants with sparse foliage sparse attendance a sparse vocabulary sparsely /ˈspɑrs·li/ adv › This area is very sparsely settled because there isn’t much water.
(Definition of sparse adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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