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sparse

/spɑːs/

US pronunciation
American sound/spɑːs/
sparse
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Open ah vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

US voice -> sparse

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ကျသော။ ပါးသော။ နည်းသော။ ကျဲကျဲ။ ကျိုးတိုးကျဲတဲ။ မည်ကာမတ္တ။

Full entry

sparse /spɑ:s/ adj (-r , -st )

ကျဲသော။ ပါးသော။ နည်းသော။
a sparse population ❍ Vegetation becomes sparse higher up the mountain. ❍ Television coverage of the event was rather sparse.
❏ sparsely adv ကျဲကျဲ။ ကျိုးတိုးကျဲတဲ။ မည်ကာမတ္တ။ a sparsely furnished room (ie one with little furniture) ❍ a sparsely populated region. sparseness n [U]

More examples
  • Higher up the mountain, houses became sparse.
  • A sparsely populated country
Synonyms
thin, spare, light, bare, meager, dispersed, exiguous, few and far between, inadequate, infrequent, occasional, poor, rare, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, scrubby, skimpy, sporadic, uncommon
Antonyms
abundant, adequate, dense, enough, fat, frequent, full, lush, plentiful, sufficient
Cross references
thinsparelightbaremeagerdispersedexiguousfew and far betweeninadequateinfrequentoccasionalpoorrarescantscantyscarcescrimpyscrubbyskimpysporadicuncommonabundantadequatedenseenoughfatfrequentfull
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