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[ UK /dˈɛns/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. hard to pass through because of dense growth
    thick woods
    dense vegetation
  2. having high relative density or specific gravity
    dense as lead
  3. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
    impenetrable gloom
    heavy fog
    dense smoke
  4. 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.
  • In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
  • 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
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