sparse UK /spɑːs/US /spɑːɹs/adjective 3verb 1forms 5 adjective3 •Having widely spaced intervals. •Not dense; meager; scanty •Having few nonzero elements verb1 •(no longer used) To disperse, to scatter.They began properly to sparse pretye rumours in the North, that no man shulde eate whyte breade, no man eate pygge, goose, or capon, without he agreed before with the kynge. — 1536 formssparsed · sparsing · sparses · sparser · sparsest