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)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

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
• 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
• UNBOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Unbind.
• 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.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.