| Adj. | 1. | dense - permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"thick - relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" | |
| 2. | dense - closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"concentrated - gathered together or made less diffuse; "their concentrated efforts"; "his concentrated attention"; "concentrated study"; "a narrow thread of concentrated ore" | |
| 3. | dense - hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"impenetrable - not admitting of penetration or passage into or through; "an impenetrable fortress"; "impenetrable rain forests" | |
| 4. | dense - having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"heavy - of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogony furniture" | |
| 5. | dense - 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"stupid - lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity | |