'Dense' definitions:
Definition of 'dense'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable]
adjective
Hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: dense, thick]
adjective
Having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
adjective
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: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
Definition of 'Dense'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. --Ray. [1913 Webster]
- To replace the cloudy barrier dense. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dense'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adamantine,
- asinine,
- beef-brained,
- beef-witted,
- blockheaded,
- blockish,
- Boeotian,
- 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