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                    | Main Entry: | 
                    sparse | 
                   
                  
                    | Part of Speech: | 
                    adjective | 
                   
                  
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                        almost unheard-of,  at a premium, broadcast, cheeseparing,  chinchy, chintzy, diffuse, discrete, dispersed,  dispread, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, exiguous,  few and far between,  hard to come by, in short supply, inadequate, inappreciable, infrequent, insignificant, insufficient, intermittent, irregular, limited, little, meager, miserly, niggardly,  not much, occasional,  out of print, out of season,  out of stock, piddling, poor,  rare,  scant,  scanty,  scarce, scattered, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy,  seldom met with,  seldom seen, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slight, slim, slow, spare, sparing, sporadic, spotty, spread,  spread out, sprinkled, stingy, straggling,  straggly,  strewn,  strown, thin,  thinly distributed, tight, uncommon,  unfrequent, unique, unusual,  widely dispersed, widespread
                        
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                        broadcast, cheeseparing, chintzy, diffuse, discrete, dispersed, disseminated, dissipated, distributed, exiguous, in short supply, infrequent, lean, little, meager, meagre, measly, miserly, niggardly, not to be had, out of season, piddling, poor,  premium,  rare, rarefied,  scant,  scanty,  scarce, scattered, scrimp, scrimping, scrimpy, severe, short, skimp, skimping, skimpy, slim, slow, spare, sparing, sporadic, spotty, spread, sprinkled, stingy, straggling, thin, tight, uncommon, unique, unusual, widespread
                        
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