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Definitions for Dense

[1] having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population.
[2] stupid; slow-witted; dull.
[3] intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
[4] relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
[5] difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay.
[6] Mathematics . of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
[7] thickly crowded or closely set a dense crowd
[8] thick; impenetrable a dense fog
[9] physics having a high density
[10] stupid; dull; obtuse
[11] (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
[12] (of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light

Words related to Dense

heavy, solid, impenetrable, opaque, simple, thick, dull, close, compact, condensed, crowded, heaped, jammed, packed, substantial, thickset, close-knit, crammed, jam-packed, massed

Words nearby Dense

denouement, denounce, denpasar, dens, dens in dente, dense, densify, densimeter, densitometer, density, density current

Origin of Dense

1590–1600; < Latin dēnsus thick; cognate with Greek dasýs

Other words from Dense

dense·ly , adverb
dense·ness , noun
non·dense·ness , noun
su·per·dense , adjective
ul·tra·dense , adjective

Word origin for Dense

C15: from Latin densus thick; related to Greek dasus thickly covered with hair or leaves

Synonyms for Dense

heavy, impenetrable, opaque, solid, close, close-knit, compact, condensed, crammed, crowded, heaped, jam-packed, jammed, massed, packed, packed like sardines, piled, substantial, thickset