impenetrable vs sparse

impenetrable

adj
  • Not penetrable. 

  • Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent. 

  • Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable. 

noun
  • A person not openly given to friendship. 

sparse

adj
  • Not dense; meager; scanty 

  • Having few nonzero elements 

  • Having widely spaced intervals. 

How often have the words impenetrable and sparse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )