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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SPARSE)
- Loose
- Unbound
- detached
- flowing
- scattered
- sparse
- incompact
- vague
- inexact
- rambling
- dissolute
- licentious
- Hare
- Scarce
- choice
- infrequent
- excellent
- few
- exceptional
- unusual
- singular
- uncommon
- incomparable
- extraordinary
- unique
- dispersed
- valuable
- precious
- thin
- volatile
- Rare
- unabundant
- wanting
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SPARSE)
Related words: (words related to SPARSE)
- 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.