- containing a lot of people, things, plants, etc. with little space between them
- a dense crowd/forest
- areas of dense population
- The forest is quite dense at that point.
- difficult to see through synonym thick
- dense fog/smoke/fumes
- The fog was getting very dense.
- (informal) stupid
- How can you be so dense?
- John's all right, but he can be a bit dense sometimes.
- difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information
- a dense piece of writing
- (specialist) heavy in relation to its size
- Less dense substances move upwards to form a crust.
- All that is left of the star is a small, dense core.
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin densus.
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