Crossword-Solution: SPARSE 6 letters, 136 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Sparse	superl.	Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population.
Sparse	superl.	Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.
Sparse	v. t.	To scatter; to disperse.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
SPARSE	anagram	ASPERS, PARSES, PASSER, PRASES, PRESAS, REPASS, SPARES, SPEARS

We have 136 clues for the answer “SPARSE”

Clue	Answers
Far from dense	1 answer
Few and scattered	1 answer
Hardly dense	1 answer
Hardly filled in	1 answer
Hardly overwhelming	1 answer
Hardly packed	1 answer
Hardly prevalent	1 answer
Hardly thick	1 answer
Highly scattered	1 answer
Like Greenland's population	1 answer
Like Greenlanders	1 answer
Like Wyoming's population	1 answer
Like Yukon Territory's population	1 answer
Like Yukon's population	1 answer
Like a poor attendance	1 answer
Like crowds at meaningless games, often	1 answer
Like desert Vegetation	1 answer
Like northern Alaska, vegetation-wise	1 answer
Like people in Yukon Territory	1 answer
Like plant life in a desert	1 answer
Like receding hair	1 answer
Like scrubland vegetation	1 answer
Like some crowds, oxymoronically speaking	1 answer
Like steppe vegetation	1 answer
Like the hair under a comb-over	1 answer
Like the outback population	1 answer
Like the people of Siberia	1 answer
Like the population of Greenland	1 answer
Like the population of Siberia	1 answer
Like the population of Wyoming	1 answer
Like trees on a prairie	1 answer
Like vegetation in the desert	1 answer
Like western Alaska's population	1 answer
Meagre sum originally held in reserve	1 answer
Not ample	1 answer
Not at all all over	1 answer
Not at all dense	1 answer
Not at all plentiful	1 answer
Not crowded.	1 answer
Not luxuriant.	1 answer
Not rife	1 answer
Not thick	1 answer
Not thickly grown.	1 answer
Not thickly settled.	1 answer
Of few and scattered elements.	1 answer
Of limited availability	1 answer
Quarterback, vis-à-vis wide receiver	1 answer
Scantily settled.	1 answer
Scattered thinly	1 answer
Sporadic, with or without its fifth letter	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ARETE

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble SPARSE 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing PA 6-letter words containing SE 6-letter words with S and P

Sentences with SPARSE (5)

Here and there one saw reflected the image of a heifer, turned loose to live upon the sparse sand-grass.

The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992

Industry is sparse, bright spots including electric power and aluminum production based on the country's sizable hydropower resources and a surprising specialty in the production of metal-cutting machine tools.

The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

The government controls key areas, such as the vital petroleum sector (through large-scale state enterprises) and extensively subsidizes agriculture, fishing, and areas with sparse resources.

The 1993 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993

Then straight away over two miles of rolling meadow, and awfully hard to follow, for the confetti was getting sparse.

Daddy-Long-Legs Jean Webster 2008

Finally, exhausted from chasing the arrow and deflecting the bird, the boy sat down in the sparse shade of a dead tree.

Stories From the Old Attic Robert Harris 1995

Quotes with SPARSE (3)

Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had once been colored flowers, but the color was washed out now, so that the small flowered pattern was only a little lighter gray than the background. The dress came down to her ankles, and he strong, broad, bare feet moved quickly and deftly over the floor. Her thin, steel-gray hair was gathered in a sparse wispy knot at the back of her head. Strong, fr…

John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath

She was a mimicry of a facade fashioned from the half-truths of her life. She was a beautiful abomination, patched together from the most pristine and terrible parts she could find. She was a black crystal of many cuts and facets whose dark glow suffocated and entranced those it washed over. There was a pointlessness in her eyes and apathy in her stature, and further in, past the symphonies of nightmarish screams was a blinding light. All the capability she could ever ask for…

Hubert Martin

where actual evidence had been a bit sparse he had, in the best traditions of the keen ethnic historian, inferred from revealed self-evident wisdom* *Made it upand extrapolated from associated sources** **had read a lot of stuff that other people had made up, too.

Terry Pratchett

Where this answer appears

Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 310 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).