dense
having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest;dense population.
stupid; slow-witted; dull.
intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay.
Mathematics. of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
Origin of dense
1Other words for dense
1 | congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable |
Other words from dense
- densely, adverb
- denseness, noun
- non·dense·ness, noun
- su·per·dense, adjective
- ul·tra·dense, adjective
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How to use dense in a sentence
In May, he published his fifth book, Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong.
The plot of the film runs secondary to the spectacle, and is denser than a TED conference.
‘Interstellar’ Is Wildly Ambitious, Very Flawed, and Absolutely Worth Seeing | Marlow Stern | November 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPHA, on the other hand, is denser than water, and thus sinks to the bottom.
The stories are denser and the first seven episodes are their own arc.
7 Things to Know About the Final Season of ‘Mad Men’ | Marina Watts | March 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDenser places with bigger cities are, to put it simply, richer.
Did I Abandon My Creative Class Theory? Not So Fast, Joel Kotkin | Richard Florida | March 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
Denser and denser the woods became until it was hardly possible to force a passage.
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. ThompsonIt was approached through a labyrinth of streets that grew denser and darker as one neared the precincts of the club.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanSo they hastened, while above them the canopy of leaves grew denser, and more clouds piled across the dimming sun.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisNight was beginning to fall, and a denser shadow was each moment invading the plain.
The Border Rifles | Gustave AimardAs population grows denser, individual freedom must more and more give way to collective restraint and direction.
The Inhumanity of Socialism | Edward F. Adams
British Dictionary definitions for dense
/ (dɛns) /
thickly crowded or closely set: a dense crowd
thick; impenetrable: a dense fog
physics having a high density
stupid; dull; obtuse
(of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
(of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
Origin of dense
1Derived forms of dense
- densely, adverb
- denseness, noun
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