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 fact a respectable wreath of smoke is quite substantial compared with the densest of the comets.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardProbably the densest forests in the world are those in the Amazon region of South America.
In time of danger they conceal themselves in the densest brushwood, out of which they do not emerge until the peril is past.
Little Folks | VariousIt was one of those natural clearings that are so often found in the densest forests.
The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers | Claude A. LabelleThe cannoneer chose the densest red of the advancing mass, and sent the shot straight to the mark.
In Hostile Red | Joseph Altsheler
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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