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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 Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dense: adamantine \| asinine \| beef-brained \| beef-witted \| blockheaded \| blockish \| Boeotian \| bony \| bovine \| bristling \| broad-bodied \| bulky \| bullnecked \| cement \| cemental \| chumpish \| cloddish \| close \| close-knit \| close-textured \| close-woven \| coarse \| compact \| compacted \| compressed \| concentrated \| concrete \| condensed \| congested \| consolidated \| corneous \| corpulent \| cowish \| crammed \| crammed full \| crass \| crawling \| crowded \| diamondlike \| dim \| dim-witted \| doltish \| dull \| dullard \| dumb \| duncical \| duncish \| durable \| dure \| enduring \| exuberant \| fat \| fatheaded \| firm \| flintlike \| flinty \| flourishing \| foolish \| full \| full-bodied \| gluey \| granitelike \| granitic \| gross \| hard \| hard as nails \| hardhearted \| heaped \| heavy \| heavyset \| horny \| impassable \| impassive \| impenetrable \| impermeable \| ineducable \| iron-hard \| ironlike \| jammed \| jam-packed \| jungled \| jungly \| klutzy \| lapideous \| lasting \| lethargic \| lithoid \| lithoidal \| lumpish \| lush \| luxuriant \| marble \| marblelike \| massed \| massive \| nonporous \| numskulled \| oafish \| obdurate \| obtuse \| opaque \| osseous \| overgrown \| overrun \| packed \| phlegmatic \| piled \| populous \| rank \| resistant \| resistive \| riotous \| rocklike \| rocky \| rugged \| serried \| slow \| slow-witted \| sluggish \| solid \| sottish \| sound \| stable \| steady \| steellike \| steely \| stolid \| stonelike \| stony \| stout \| strong \| stupid \| sturdy \| substantial \| swarming \| teeming \| thick \| thick-bodied \| thick-growing \| thickheaded \| thickset \| thick-witted \| three-dimensional \| tight \| torpid \| tough \| unteachable \| unweeded \| unyielding \| viscid \| viscose \| viscous \| weed-choked \| weed-ridden \| weedy \| well-built \| well-constructed \| well-founded \| well-grounded \| well-made \| wrongheaded See Also \| 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.

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"

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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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