American English pronunciation
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IPA transcription: ['dɛns]
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Adjective
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slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
“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”
“dumb officials make some really dumb decisions”
“he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse”
“worked with the slow students”
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permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
“dense smoke”
“heavy fog”
“impenetrable gloom”
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hard to pass through because of dense growth
“dense vegetation”
“thick woods”
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having high relative density or specific gravity
“dense as lead”
Usage examples
- They can form dense mats and even mounds that grow over low features.
- It features larger maps, denser terrain, and free-roaming environments.
- The child crawled into the dense grass.
- It also has a countable dense subset, namely the set of rational numbers.
- They tend not to live within dense drift ice.
- International services were to be operated from Granada to London and Odense, Denmark.
- The shoots are buff-brown to orange-brown, usually densely pubescent, and with prominent pulvini.
- It follows the same basic story, though in a somewhat condensed form.
- Plants typically develop thick woody stems; the flowers are arranged in a dense spike.
- This means that in higher dimensions, structurally stable systems are not dense.