a. | 1. | Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; |
2. | Stupid; gross; crass; |
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" | |
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" |