dense
dense/dens/
adjective
- closely compacted in substance."dense volcanic rock"synonyms: thick, heavy, opaque, soupy, murky, smoggy, impenetrable, concentrated, condensed, of high density
- (of a person) stupid."Am I being dense? I don't quite understand"synonyms: stupid, unintelligent, ignorant, brainless, mindless, foolish, slow, slow-witted, dull-witted, witless, doltish, blockish, dunce-like, simpleminded, empty-headed, vacuous, vapid, halfwitted, idiotic, moronic, imbecilic, obtuse, bovine, lumpish, gullible, naive, thick, dim, dumb, dopey, dippy, dozy, cretinous, thickheaded, chuckleheaded, dunderheaded, wooden-headed, fat-headed, thick-skulled, muttonheaded, boneheaded, lamebrained, birdbrained, peabrained, pig-ignorant, slow on the uptake, soft in the head, brain-dead, dead from the neck up, daft, not the full shilling, as thick as two short planks, dof, dotish, dumb-ass
- (of a text) hard to understand because of its complexity of ideas."a dark, dense novel"
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5 days ago · dense implies a thickheaded imperviousness to ideas. too dense to take a hint.
stupid; slow-witted; dull. intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
dense adjective [-er/-est only] (CONTAINING MATTER). science. (of a substance) containing a lot of matter in a small space: Plutonium is very dense.
adjective · nimble · acute · ingenious · keen · wise · insightful · resourceful · cerebral · perceptive · intellectual.
dense in American English · 1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact · 2. stupid; slow-witted; dull · 3. intense; extreme.
informal : not smart : not able to understand things easily. I'm sorry to be so dense [=slow-witted, stupid, dumb] this morning.
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Dense comes from the Latin densus which means thick and cloudy. In general, the word means packed tight and gives the sense that something is difficult to get ...
Adjective edit · Having relatively high density. · Compact; crowded together. · Thick; difficult to penetrate. · Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dense, such as: heavy, impenetrable, opaque, solid, close, and compact.