Dense

[dens] or [dɛns]

Definition

(adj.) slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; 'so dense he never understands anything I say to him'; 'never met anyone quite so dim'; 'although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick'- Thackeray; 'dumb officials make some really dumb decisions'; 'he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse'; 'worked with the slow students' .

(adj.) having high relative density or specific gravity; 'dense as lead' .

(adj.) hard to pass through because of dense growth; 'dense vegetation'; 'thick woods' .

(adj.) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; 'dense smoke'; 'heavy fog'; 'impenetrable gloom' .

Checked by Douglas--From WordNet

Definition

(a.) Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.

(a.) Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

Editor: Meredith

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Close, compact, condensed, compressed, thick.

Checker: Steve

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Slow, thick, stupid, stolid, solid, stout, compact, consolidated, condensed,close, thickset

ANT:Quick, clever, intelligent, rare, rarefied, uncompacted, sparse

Editor: Susanna

Definition

adj. thick close compact: impenetrably stupid.—n. a thicket.—adv. Dense′ly.—ns. Dense′ness; Dens′ity the quality of being dense: the proportion of mass to bulk or volume: the quantity of matter per unit of bulk.

Editor: Omar

Examples

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