DENSE | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of dense in English denseadjective uk /dens/ us /dens/

dense adjective (THICK)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 having parts that are close together so that it is difficult to go or see through: dense fog The plane crashed in heavy rain and dense fog. a dense forestdense undergrowth The body was found hidden in dense undergrowth. Synonym thick (CLOSE TOGETHER)

• The dense foliage overhead almost blocked out the sun.
• Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.
• The exhaust pipe belched out dense black smoke.
• A huge cloud of dense smoke stretched across the horizon.
• They had to clear a road through an area of dense forest.

Thick, dense and heavy

• blocky
• cakey
• chunkily
• chunkiness
• chunky
• claggy
• densely
• heavily
• heaviness
• heftily
• hefty
• high density
• lumpen
• super-thick
• thicken
• thickening
• thickly
• thickness
• weigh
• wiry

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dense adjective (MATTER)

physics   specialized (of a substance) containing a lot of matter in a small space: Plutonium is very dense. Miscellaneous units of measurement

• acre
• acreage
• becquerel
• caloric
• calorie
• chain
• customary unit
• denier
• dioptre
• kHz
• kilowatt
• megahertz
• mole
• ppm
• psi
• radian
• refractive index
• rod
• roentgen
• SI unit

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dense adjective (STUPID)

informal stupid: There are some really dense people in our class. Stupid and silly

• absurd
• absurdity
• absurdly
• adolescent
• against your better judgment idiom
• dizzily
• doltish
• doltishly
• dopey
• dopily
• imprudently
• in his/her/their wisdom idiom
• in someone's infinite wisdom idiom
• inadvisable
• injudicious
• subliterate
• subnormal
• uncritical
• uncritically
• undiscriminating

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dense | American Dictionary

denseadjective [ -er/-est only ] us /dens/

dense adjective [-er/-est only] (THICK)

Add to word list Add to word list close together and difficult to go or see through; thick: dense fog I had trouble getting through the dense crowd. Dense can also mean stupid: There are some really dense people in our class.

dense adjective [-er/-est only] (CONTAINING MATTER)

science (of a substance) containing a lot of matter in a small space: Plutonium is very dense.

densely

adverb us /ˈdens·li/ a densely packed room (Definition of dense from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of dense

dense Agermodality : written texts are nominally denser than spoken texts only in the two older groups, with adult texts the densest. From the Cambridge English Corpus Section 3 reintroduces text and contains the densest counterpoint of the piece, with many contradictory pulses. From the Cambridge English Corpus The densest distribution of actin occurs in the perinuclear region and ends abruptly at the mid-lateral region. From the Cambridge English Corpus From a spatial point of view, one can thus expect most severe damage in the densest zones of wooded savanna. From the Cambridge English Corpus In this case, lexical neighbourhoods would actually be denser early in development and become sparser as children learn words with less common sounds and sound combinations. From the Cambridge English Corpus However, the highest numbers of individuals caught per night and the highest local diversities were found in the later successional stages, which have also denser vegetation than the earlier stages. From the Cambridge English Corpus Consequently, the axonal plexus was much denser than the dendritic plexus, with each square millimeter of retina containing ;100 mm of dendrites and ;1000 mm of axonal processes. From the Cambridge English Corpus The emphasis is on the asymptotic case when one of the hypergraphs has a bounded degree and the other is dense. From the Cambridge English Corpus Histological examination of the resected aneurysm revealed myocardium which was almost totally replaced by dense fibrous tissue and numerous caseating granulomata. From the Cambridge English Corpus The book is simply too dense, and too good, for that approach to bear fruit. From the Cambridge English Corpus Here and there occurred patches of dense jungle, quite impossible to penetrate, whilst there are also fairly large open spaces. From the Cambridge English Corpus The highest density of anopheline mosquito larvae was found amongst dense vegetation, and only rarely in the free water surface. From the Cambridge English Corpus The task is not simple, as the production of the lubricant requires collective action of the dense bacterial population that the food-depleted substrate cannot sustain. From the Cambridge English Corpus In general, the effect of neighborhood density on word recognition by children is similar to that found for adults with dense neighborhoods inhibiting recognition. From the Cambridge English Corpus In the first place this article is extremely dense and many arguments require far more space in order to provide a coherent presentation. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of dense These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of dense?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 濃的, 濃的，濃密的, 濃厚的… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 浓的, 浓的，浓密的, 浓重的… See more in Spanish denso, estúpido, denso/sa [masculine-feminine]… See more in Portuguese denso, fechado, obtuso… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian गर्द, दाट… See more （液体、蒸気などが）濃い, （人、物が）密集した, 密集（みっしゅう）した… See more yoğun, sıkı, kalabalık… See more dense, bouché/-ée, bouché… See more dens… See more dicht, stompzinnig… See more ஒன்றாக நெருக்கமாக இருக்கும் பகுதிகளைக் கொண்டிருப்பது, அதனால் செல்லவோ அல்லது பார்க்கவோ கடினமாக உள்ளது… See more घना… See more ગાઢ… See more tæt, tyk, tykhovedet… See more tät, kompakt, dum… See more tebal, bodoh… See more dicht, schwer von Begriff… See more tett, tykk, tett i pappen… See more گہرا, گنجان, گھنا… See more густий, щільний, дурний… See more దట్టమైన… See more ঘন, গভীর… See more hustý, hloupý, nechápavý… See more lebat, bodoh… See more หนาแน่น, โง่… See more dày đặc, rất ngu ngốc… See more gęsty, tępy… See more 짙은, 밀집한… See more fitto, stupido… See more Need a translator?

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    • dense (THICK)
    • dense (MATTER)
    • dense (STUPID)
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    • dense (THICK)
    • dense (CONTAINING MATTER)
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    • densely
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