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Dense

Dense Meaning & Definition
Dense Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dense?

[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] closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"
[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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dense: compact | concentrated | dim | dull | dumb | heavy | impenetrable | obtuse | slow | stupid | thick

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Dense In Webster's Dictionary

\Dense\, a. [L. densus; akin to Gr. ? thick with hair or leaves: cf. F. dense.] 1. 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. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. --Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. --Cowper. 2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

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