Dense

a.	1.	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. - Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. - Cowper.
	2.	Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

Adj.	1.	dense - permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" Synonyms: impenetrable, heavy
	2.	dense - closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds" Synonyms: compact, thick
	3.	dense - hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" Synonyms: thick
	4.	dense - having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
	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" Synonyms: dumb, slow, obtuse, dim, dull

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