Thesaurus: dense

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1. 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.
2. a. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
3. adj. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
4. adj. hard to pass through because of dense growth
5. adj. having high relative density or specific gravity
6. adj. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
7. adj. having component parts closely crowded together
8. 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.
9. j:100 s. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter s. hard to pass through because of dense growth s. having high relative density or specific gravity s. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity