Etymology : Latin densus; akin to Greek dasys thick with hair or leaves
Pronunciation : 'den(t)s
Function : adjective
Date : 15th century
1. compact, close; (Slang) stupid, slow. dense\dense\ , a. [l. densus; akin to gr. thick with hair or leaves: cf. f. dense.].
2. having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. all sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. to replace the cloudy barrier dense.
3. stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.dense adj.
4. permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: heavy, impenetrable].
5. closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: compact, thick].
6. hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: thick].
7. having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead".
8. 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" [syn: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow].
9. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog.
10. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance. 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" having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead" hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom".
11. 1. Something that is dense contains a lot of things or people in a small area. Where Bucharest now stands, there once was a large, dense forest They thrust their way through the dense crowd. ¡Ù sparse + densely dense·ly Java is a densely populated island ¡Ù sparsely.
12. Dense fog or smoke is difficult to see:
through because it is very heavy and dark. A dense column of smoke rose several miles into the air. = thick.
13. In science, a dense substance is very heavy in relation to its volume. a small dense star.
14. If you say that someone is dense, you mean that you think they are stupid and that they take a long time to understand simple things. He's not a bad man, just a bit dense. = thick.
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