Usually means: With few elements or occurrences.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparsely: Merriam-Webster
  2. sparsely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sparsely: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sparsely: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sparsely, sparsely: Wordnik
  6. sparsely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sparsely: Wiktionary
  8. sparsely: Dictionary.com
  9. sparsely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Sparsely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. sparsely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. sparsely: Rhymezone
  13. Sparsely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sparsely: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sparsely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sparsely: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparsely: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparsely: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sparsely)

▸ adverb:  In a scattered or sparse manner; widely apart; thinly.

Similar:
thinly, scatteredly, sparsedly, sparely, scantily, dispersedly, sparingly, disparately, spreadingly, sprawlingly, more...

Opposite:
densely, thickly, heavily

Types:
thinly, scarcely, rarely, sparse, more...

Phrases:
Sparsely totient number, sparsely populated, sparsely populated location, more...

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     taupe,     ecru,     ivory, more...



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Similar:
thinly, scatteredly, sparsedly, sparely, scantily, dispersedly, sparingly, disparately, spreadingly, sprawlingly, more...

Opposite:
densely, thickly, heavily

Types:
thinly, scarcely, rarely, sparse, more...

Phrases:
Sparsely totient number, sparsely populated, sparsely populated location, more...

Colors:
    beige,     sand,     taupe,     ecru,     ivory, more...



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