Word Meanings - SPARSELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a scattered or sparse manner.

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• SPARSELY
  In a scattered or sparse manner.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• SPARSEDLY
  Sparsely.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• SPARSE
  Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like. (more info) 1. Thinly scattered; set or planted here and there; not being dense or close together; as, a sparse population. Carlyle.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• SPARSENESS
  The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• TOSCATTER
  To scatter in pieces; to divide. Chaucer.