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Synonyms for sparse

conspicuously deficient in quantity, fullness, or extent

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Synonyms for sparse

not dense

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It is easiest to apply over sparsely haired areas which are the areas that most need protection and is generally nontoxic.
Ketron Island is a sparsely populated island 25 miles (40 km) southwest of the airport.
The toll from the sparsely populated Badakhshan province was likely to rise as reports came in from remote areas.
This common network is expected to result in an increased number of base stations, better coverage and more capacity in the more sparsely populated areas of Eastern and Northern Finland.
President Barack Obama will be privately sworn-in for his second term as president in a brief, sparsely attended ceremony at the White House next Sunday, spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday.
Indeed many parts of Wales are very sparsely populated, with counties such as Gwynedd and Ceredigion amongst the most sparsely populated parts of England and Wales.
Whilst there are certain clubs whose name is synonymous with fantastic away support - like Sunderland and Newcastle (although the Sunderland end at Blackburn was very sparsely populated on Tuesday night) - nobody ever seems to mention that Everton have an outstanding following away from home.
Those filled with: sparsely cross-linked microspheres containing growth factor, highly crosslinked microspheres containing growth factor, sparsely cross-linked microspheres with no growth factor, highly cross-linked microspheres with no growth factor, and a control with no microspheres.
Those filled with: sparsely cross-linked microspheres containing growth factor, highly cross-linked microspheres containing growth factor, sparsely cross-linked microspheres with no growth factor, highly cross-linked microspheres with no growth factor, and a control with no microspheres.
The sheet with sparsely crosslinked microspheres grew into the thickest and most resilient neocartilage.
The 46 sparsely planted juveniles and young adults seen by scientists from France and New Zealand belong to a single species, dubbed Ptilocrinus amezianeae.
His photographs of the ancient Al Fahidi Fort, the sparsely inhabited Bur Dubai area and the not so sparsely populated Deira area immediately take you back to the past in an almost mythical fashion.
Leaves densely rosulate, 20 to 35 in number, erect to spreading, 30-45 cm long: leaf sheaths narrowly elliptic, 45-65 x 20-30 mm, thin, nerved, sparsely punctate lepidote, more so abaxially, somewhat castaneous; leaf blades linear lanceolate, attenuate, 10-16 mm wide, thin coriaceous, nerved, sparsely punctate lepidote throughout, light green or green tinged reddish.
The most sparsely populated is Greenland, which has a population of 56,916 - 0.68 people per square mile.