Dense \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.
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All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare.
--Ray.
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To replace the cloudy barrier dense. --Cowper.
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2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dense
adj 1: permitting little if any light to pass through because of
denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog";
"impenetrable gloom" [syn: heavy, impenetrable]
2: closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a
dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: compact, thick]
3: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense
vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: thick]
4: having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as
lead"
5: 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"
[syn: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
WordNet (r) 2.0
161 Moby Thesaurus words for "dense":
Boeotian, adamantine, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted,
blockheaded, blockish, 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,
jam-packed, jammed, 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,
thick-witted, thickheaded, thickset, 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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
compact, dim, dull, dumb, heavy, impenetrable, obtuse, slow, thick
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