471 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ spˈɑːs], [ spˈɑːs], [ s_p_ˈɑː_s]

Similar words for sparse:

• all (adjective)
• dense (adjective)
• exiguous (adjective)
• few (adjective)
• inadequate (adjective)
• infrequent (adjective)
• insufficient (adjective)
• lean (adjective)
• light (adjective)
• little (adjective)
• low (adjective)
• meager (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• piddly (adjective)
• poor (adjective)
• rare (adjective)
• scant/scanty (adjective)
• scarce (adjective)
• scattered (adjective)
• short (adjective)
• slight (adjective)
• standout (adjective)
• thin (adjective)
• distributed (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• scattered (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "sparse" in context?

Paraphrases for sparse

Homophones for sparse

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Synonyms for Sparse:

• adj.

  • all (adjective)
  • sparse.
  • dense (adjective)
  • thick.
  • exiguous (adjective)
  • tiny.
  • few (adjective)
  • minimal,
  • scarcely any,
  • minimum,
  • few and far between,
  • some,
  • insufficient,
  • piddling,
  • inconsiderable,
  • several,
  • occasional,
  • semioccasional,
  • miserly,
  • Unfrequent,
  • not too many,
  • widely spaced,
  • not many,
  • trifling,
  • spotty,
  • few,
  • negligible,
  • middling.
  • inadequate (adjective)
  • glitchest,
  • in-capable,
  • in commensurate,
  • incomplete,
  • in capable,
  • in-apter,
  • minus,
  • in competent,
  • un-equal,
  • in appreciable,
  • impotent,
  • in-appreciable,
  • in-complete,
  • more lemon,
  • glitcher,
  • in-commensurate,
  • too little,
  • more stinted,
  • most lemon,
  • in-aptest,
  • in-adequate,
  • incapable,
  • in adequate,
  • lemon,
  • in complete,
  • junker,
  • most stinted,
  • in apter,
  • un productive,
  • un-productive,
  • in-competent,
  • in aptest,
  • in-substantial,
  • bushleague,
  • un qualified,
  • more niggardly,
  • un-qualified,
  • un equal,
  • most niggardly,
  • junkest,
  • in substantial.
  • infrequent (adjective)
  • sporadic,
  • uncommon,
  • odd,
  • unusual,
  • isolated.
  • insufficient (adjective)
  • skimpy,
  • stingy,
  • meager,
  • Flyspeck,
  • deficient.
  • lean (adjective)
  • in-fertile,
  • un-fruitful,
  • un fruitful,
  • stiltest,
  • most shadow,
  • most beanpole,
  • scraggier,
  • stickest,
  • more sylphlike,
  • gangling,
  • stilter,
  • more beanpole,
  • stilt,
  • most sylphlike,
  • more shadow,
  • in fertile.
  • light (adjective)
  • lightest,
  • wee,
  • hardly any,
  • shoestring,
  • not much,
  • fragmentary,
  • hardly enough,
  • not rich.
  • little (adjective)
  • not big,
  • smallish,
  • under-sized,
  • Toyer,
  • not large,
  • junior,
  • shrimpy,
  • mini,
  • snubber.
  • low (adjective)
  • second rate,
  • second-rate,
  • marked down,
  • secondrate,
  • cut rate,
  • lower,
  • cut-rate,
  • uncostly.
  • meager (adjective)
  • skimpest,
  • un-finished,
  • scrimpier,
  • un finished,
  • scrimpiest,
  • scrimpest.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • recherche,
  • piddly,
  • barely sufficient,
  • pre-eminent,
  • poor,
  • scrimpy,
  • out-standing,
  • found wanting,
  • extra ordinary,
  • scraggiest,
  • low,
  • infrequent,
  • seldom met with,
  • scant,
  • Subtile,
  • slight,
  • STANDOUT,
  • thin,
  • small number,
  • scattered,
  • a few,
  • inadequate,
  • sylphlike,
  • scarce,
  • sticker,
  • rinkydink,
  • no fat,
  • scrimper,
  • quite a few,
  • light,
  • skimper,
  • not enough,
  • niggardly,
  • only a few,
  • exiguous,
  • unpersuasive,
  • scanty,
  • at a premium,
  • too little too late,
  • scraggy,
  • unheard of,
  • rare.
  • piddly (adjective)
  • diddlier,
  • more rinky dink,
  • rinky dink,
  • rinky-dink,
  • most rinky dink,
  • two bit,
  • more rinkydink,
  • twobit,
  • diddliest,
  • most rinky-dink,
  • more rinky-dink,
  • most rinkydink.
  • poor (adjective)
  • SUBPAR.,
  • subnormal,
  • poorer.
  • rare (adjective)
  • most attenuate,
  • un likeliest,
  • most attenuated,
  • in conceivable,
  • subtilest,
  • rarest,
  • subtiler,
  • sub tiler,
  • un likelier,
  • sub tile,
  • more attenuate,
  • un thinkable,
  • un-likelier,
  • extra-ordinary,
  • un wonted,
  • un-imaginable,
  • un-thinkable,
  • un likely,
  • un-wonted,
  • most recherche,
  • sub-tiler,
  • un-likely,
  • more recherche,
  • out of ordinary,
  • out the ordinary,
  • sub-tile,
  • un imaginable,
  • more attenuated,
  • un-likeliest,
  • out ordinary,
  • in-conceivable.
  • scant/scanty (adjective)
  • most minimal.
  • scarce (adjective)
  • most shortened,
  • at premium,
  • more shortened.
  • scattered (adjective)
  • more strewn,
  • most strewn.
  • short (adjective)
  • low on,
  • shortest,
  • shorthanded.
  • slight (adjective)
  • re-mote,
  • out side,
  • un-essential,
  • un essential.
  • standout (adjective)
  • out standing,
  • pre eminent.
  • thin (adjective)
  • more weak-kneed,
  • more stretched,
  • un-tenable,
  • un-believable,
  • trans-parent,
  • more unpersuasive,
  • weakkneed,
  • most stretched,
  • un convincing,
  • un persuasive,
  • in-credible,
  • more weak kneed,
  • most diluted,
  • most weak-kneed,
  • weak kneed,
  • trans parent,
  • in credible,
  • un-persuasive,
  • un believable,
  • un tenable,
  • un-convincing,
  • more weakkneed,
  • most unpersuasive,
  • most weakkneed.

• n.

  •
  • barely,
  • only.
  • distributed (noun)
  • distributed.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • little,
  • quantity.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • diffuse,
  • lean.
  • scattered (verb)
  • study at scanty.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • merely,
  • mere,
  • sparingly,
  • paltry,
  • rank,
  • measly,
  • thinly,
  • faintest.
  •
  • distant,
  • any,
  • limited,
  • least.
  •
  • lightly,
  • bare,
  • puny,
  • pitiful.
  •
  • minority,
  • passing.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • dispersal,
  • close,
  • imperfect,
  • hollow-cheeked,
  • skimp,
  • in short supply,
  • dilation,
  • cadaverous,
  • straggling,
  • distribute,
  • slender,
  • discharge,
  • chintzy,
  • oddity,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • modest,
  • sprinkled,
  • dispel,
  • starved,
  • barely adequate,
  • lanky,
  • severe,
  • undernourished,
  • meagre,
  • clarify,
  • premium,
  • flawed,
  • disseminate,
  • sparseness,
  • rarefied,
  • spartan,
  • expound,
  • monastic,
  • Skimping,
  • bony,
  • unparalleled,
  • hardly,
  • scantily,
  • aggrandizement,
  • widespread,
  • development,
  • worthless,
  • underweight,
  • spread out,
  • rarely,
  • out of stock,
  • scatter,
  • unfruitful,
  • skeletal,
  • fragile,
  • sparsely,
  • atypical,
  • compose,
  • severely,
  • Unembroidered,
  • defective,
  • choice,
  • seldom,
  • Disseminated,
  • dissolve,
  • occasionally,
  • circulate,
  • impoverished,
  • hard,
  • infrequency,
  • dispersed,
  • flimsy,
  • twiggy,
  • insignificant,
  • austere,
  • exceptional,
  • elucidate,
  • watery,
  • spare,
  • unsubstantial,
  • bad,
  • chinchy,
  • wispy,
  • irregularly,
  • singular,
  • extraordinary,
  • unusually,
  • inappreciable,
  • general,
  • skinny,
  • barely any,
  • ascetic,
  • unsuitable,
  • sporadically,
  • illustrate,
  • beggarly,
  • undersized,
  • disband,
  • faulty,
  • pinched,
  • unembellished,
  • streaming,
  • small,
  • unfamiliar,
  • restricted,
  • expansion,
  • rareness,
  • disperse,
  • effuse,
  • badly,
  • annotate,
  • unadorned,
  • growth,
  • scrawny,
  • mingy,
  • discrete,
  • slow,
  • Strown,
  • adrift,
  • uncommonly,
  • scarcely,
  • attenuation,
  • diluted,
  • gaunt,
  • stark,
  • dissemination,
  • spread,
  • sparing,
  • shrivelled,
  • dispread,
  • pathetic,
  • underfed,
  • diffusion,
  • jejune,
  • narrowly,
  • dispersion,
  • explain,
  • exodus,
  • unproductive,
  • not often,
  • epidemic,
  • at,
  • concentration,
  • harshly,
  • barren,
  • increment,
  • sparsity,
  • tight,
  • explicate,
  • short,
  • strewn,
  • primitive,
  • just,
  • arid,
  • withered,
  • unique,
  • unimportant,
  • curio,
  • Scrimping,
  • straggly,
  • roughly,
  • seldom seen,
  • cheeseparing,
  • down,
  • emaciated,
  • plain,
  • scrimp,
  • poorly,
  • slim,
  • broadcast,
  • evacuate,
  • unassembled,
  • departure,
  • write,
  • interpret,
  • miserable,
  • Disperser,
  • curiosity,
  • phenomenal,
  • stray,
  • commentate,
  • spindly,
  • infrequently,
  • crude,
  • evacuation,
  • simple,
  • dissipate,
  • disheveled,
  • insufficiently,
  • disappointing,
  • attenuated,
  • shoelace,
  • rarity,
  • undecorated,
  • dissipated,
  • rarefaction,
  • out of print,
  • infertile,
  • deplete,
  • inadequately,
  • shrunken.

How to use "Sparse" in context?

Paraphrases for Sparse:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    diffuse, insufficient, limited, loose, modest, tenuous.
  • Verb, past participle
    limited.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    disparate, dispersed, few, fragmentary, fragmented, incomplete, infrequent, insubstantial, lean, meager, patchy, piecemeal, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, skinny, slim, small, sporadic, uncommon, unusual, weak.
  • Proper noun, singular
    dispersed.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rare, scattering.

Homophones for Sparse:

• shagbark, sparge, shipwreck, saporous, Sea purse, sporozoa, superhighway, saxifragaceae, suffrage, spark, saprozoic, sassafras, soap-rock, sea breeze, scabrous, spruce, sprog, sub-rosa, spork, sparaxis, sparrow hawk, soaprock, sheep frog, suppress, sprag, saxifrage, seaborg, sagebrush, sage brush, spraguea, spore case, ski parka, super C, schipperke, sphaeriaceae, spheric, saxifraga, saber saw, superego, spurge, spurious, sea-purse, Severo Ochoa, sprig, spore sac, sverige.