Meaning & use
sparsely
In a thin or scattered way, with only a few things spread over an area.
See it in a sentence
The sparsely populated countryside had only a handful of houses per mile.
Grass grew sparsely on the rocky, sun-baked hillside.
A note on using this word
Frequently paired with "populated" or "furnished" to describe a low density of people or objects.
Words with a similar meaning
thinlyscarcely
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