only present in small amounts or numbers and often spread over a large area the sparse population of the islands Vegetation becomes sparse higher up the mountains. The information available on the subject is sparse.
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adverb a sparsely populated area a sparsely furnished room
noun [uncountable]See sparse in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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