say it: SPAHR-slee
sparsely is an adverb meaning "in a sparse way". It carries one recorded sense.
in a sparse way
“sparsely inhabited”
“his beard grew sparsely”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sparsely come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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