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Meaning of 'dense' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Dense [ 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.
- Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

Meaning of 'dense' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . dense [ s]
Meaning (1):
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
Example in sentence:
  • although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick;
  • dumb officials make some really dumb decisions;
  • he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse;
  • never met anyone quite so dim;
  • so dense he never understands anything I say to him;
  • worked with the slow students
Meaning (2):
- having high relative density or specific gravity
Example in sentence:
  • dense as lead
Meaning (3):
- permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
Example in sentence:
  • dense smoke;
  • heavy fog;
  • impenetrable gloom
Meaning (4):
- hard to pass through because of dense growth
Example in sentence:
  • dense vegetation;
  • thick woods

Nearby Words:

den denarcotize denarii denarius denary denationalization denationalize denationalized denationalizing denaturalize

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