1. sparse
Furniture is sparse in this room
sparse vegetation
By the year 1900 only a sparse population was left.
News of activities for the period 1683 to 1693 is rather sparse.
sparse population/vegetation/hair/rainfall
Set aside some quiet time twice a day to count kicks, once in the morning, when activity tends to be sparser, and once in the more active evening hours.
My hair is very sparse... but I'm old, so what do I care?
information coming out of the disaster area is sparse
sparsely populated
Silently, it slipped across the darkened hangar bay toward the other ships, taking advantage of the sparse cover along the way.
There are sparse data on the role of private practice in Iraq.
It makes things easier if your matrix is sparse.
英語 "という言葉scarso"(sparse)集合で発生します。
Italian Adjectives2. scarce
Oil deposits will have become scarce by 2050.
money/water became scarce
It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.
A seller's market is a market in which goods are relatively scarce, buyers have a limited range of choice, and prices are high.
The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Records are particularly scarce for this era, perhaps owing to a long series of natural disasters which befell the capital.
And the demand for cheap produce often encourages wasteful use of scarce water resources.
University places are scarce in China and many students go abroad to study.
scarce resources
An interscise in the wall where scarce a knife blade would have gone. Good teachers are really scarce.
We need to talk to the management. We have scarce resources to start the project.
I need you to make yourself scarce.
if sth is scarce, there is not enough of it and it is only available is small quantities
as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed
In today's world, possessions are plentiful, but time is scarce.