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/dˈɛns/
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[ US /ˈdɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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hard to pass through because of dense growth
thick woods
dense vegetation -
having high relative density or specific gravity
dense as lead -
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
impenetrable gloom
heavy fog
dense smoke -
slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
worked with the slow students
he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick
never met anyone quite so dim
so dense he never understands anything I say to him
How To Use dense In A Sentence
- Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy. The Sun
- He discussions certain sparsely settled areas (the Highlands of Scotland, for example) as requiring less division of labor than more densely settled areas, and argues that this will slow down the development of manufacture, which makes a great deal of sense. A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
- A great deal of work had had to be condensed into a relatively short period of time.
- Bacon aside, the condensed force and poignant brevity of whose aphoristic wisdom has no parallel in English, there is no other prosaist who possesses anything like Milton's command over the resources of our language. Milton
- The composition of displaced terranes ranges from that of typical oceanic crust to significantly less dense granitic rock with clear continental affinities.
- It also provides a condensed primer to some of the issues at stake in American avant-garde cinema, which, partly because of its historical opposition to the dictates of commercial mainstream moviemaking and partly because it resists commodification unlike, say, abstract painting, oppositional cinema doesn't rack up big sales at Sotheby's, has been relegated to the status of museum pieces and festival marginalia. NYT > Home Page
- So far the scenery around her had been thick fur trees and dense foliage.
- Condensed soups are pretty much just cans of flavour.
- They evidently find the densely planted crop a satisfactory alternative to the nettles and brambles that they generally build in. Times, Sunday Times
- The searing heat and dense, acrid smoke inside a burning building make it almost impossible for firefighters to see what is around them. Times, Sunday Times