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Word Meanings - SPARSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like. (more info) 1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. Carlyle.

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  • FLOWERY-KIRTLED
    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
  • WANTLESS
    Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
  • UNCOMMON
    Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
  • SCARCEMENT
    An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
  • DISPERSION
    The separation of light into its different colored rays, arising from their different refrangibilities. Dispersion of the optic axes , the separation of the optic axes in biaxial crystals, due to the fact that the axial angle has different values
  • UNBOUND
    imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
  • FLOWER-DE-LUCE
    A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
  • INEXACT
    Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
  • VALUABLENESS
    The quality of being valuable.
  • FLOWERY
    1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
  • UNBOUNDED
    Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n.
  • FLOWERLESSNESS
    State of being without flowers.
  • CHOICELY
    1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
  • FLOWERLESS
    Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
  • SPARSELY
    In a scattered or sparse manner.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • UNIQUE
    Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
  • DISSOLUTE
    1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • SCRAMBLING
    Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • CAULIFLOWER
    An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
  • ANGWANTIBO
    A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

 

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