sparse
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sparse
- /spɑːs/ UK
- /spɑːɹs/ US
Rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)s
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin sparsus.
adjective sparser · sparsest
- Having widely spaced intervals. a sparse array, index, or matrix
- Not dense; meager; scanty
- Having few nonzero elements
verb sparses · sparsing · sparsed
- To disperse, to scatter. They began properly to ſparſe pretye rumours in the North, that no man ſhulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, gooſe, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge.
