adjective
- most thinly scattered or distributed; having the fewest elements spread over a given area or space
Usage: superlative form of sparse
Examples
- The desert region had the sparsest vegetation of any area we studied.
- Population density was sparsest in the northern territories.
- This was the sparsest attendance at a school board meeting in years.
- The sparsest part of the forest offered little shelter from the rain.
- Hair growth was sparsest at the crown of his head.
- The data showed the sparsest distribution of resources in rural areas.