sparse
escaso
definition
adjective
areas of sparse population
thinly dispersed or scattered.
translation of 'sparse'
adjective
escaso,
disperso,
poco denso,
esparcido
example
The houses were big and the population 'sparse' because they were so spread-out.
It wasn't that his 'sparse' acne had miraculously dispersed into clear skin, or that he had suddenly buffed up overnight.
A surprisingly 'sparse' paper trail offers only scattered clues on the obscure life of William Shakespeare, one of the world's most influential dramatists.
There are very few actors who could carry off this film, with its 'sparse' dialogue and total absence of voiceover.
The version presented here is Take 1, which was made at home, just Lennon alone at the piano, without any of the 'sparse' accompaniment that further elevated it to it's anthemic status.
Costumes were 'sparse' , with the only indicator of femininity for Helena and Hermia an occasional handbag.
The French population of this vast region was 'sparse' , however, reaching only 85,000 in the 1760s.
I only use an eyebrow pencil to fill in my 'sparse' eyebrows.
The homogenous and 'sparse' population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America.
For the earliest inhabitants of Southern France, practising a hunter-gatherer way of life, the natural resources were abundant and more than adequate for a 'sparse' population.
The restaurant is large, and the 'sparse' décor and worn-in look give it the atmosphere of a legion hall.
There is nothing but dead rocks, a few 'sparse' patches of grass, and an occasional pair of odd looking trees.
A majority of the film is set in a 'sparse' bedroom, where two unidentified strangers exchange abstract dialogue and act out a series of shocking images over a period of four nights.
Their subsequently published journals emphasized, in particular, the remoteness and 'sparse' populations of the two regions.
William Shakespeare's life is somewhat of a mystery to scholars due to the fact that most information that is known is very scattered and 'sparse' .
Unfortunately their crowd at Valve was 'sparse' - unfortunate because the always charismatic front man Jeremy ‘Jez’ Brown is a born entertainer.
Harmony Hills had a very 'sparse' population; there were only a few thousand people in our community.
There is nothing to warrant the supposition that the Bahamas ever had more than a very 'sparse' aboriginal population.
Here the population was 'sparse' , tiny villages and small, often isolated manors close to the riverbanks.
As we mentioned earlier, bluebirds prefer open rural areas with scattered trees and 'sparse' ground cover.
Large families and the practice of partible inheritance strained lands that under the best circumstances could only sustain 'sparse' populations.
If you do selective logging, or harvest 'sparse' and scattered stands, the mobility and speed pays off.
There is little trace of the funereal bedroom 'sparseness' of Cohen's early albums.
At an average height of 5,000 metres above sea level, Tibet is 'sparsely' populated.
The people in the 'sparsely' populated auditorium could be ghosts.
The standard Milky Way model comprised a thin disk of bright young stars surrounded by a 'sparsely' populated halo of old stars.
The 'sparsity' of punctuation is as headlong as any of Dickinson's dashes.
The ambience is nothing to write home about: just over a dozen seats in a small, 'sparsely' decorated white room.
But because of the 'sparsity' of the population here, that is not possible.
He told the Trade and Industry Committee: ‘One of the major problems we had in manufacturing in the UK was a real 'sparsity' of efficient, quality subcontractors.’
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