dense

Plural: denses

Adjective Satellite

• permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
  • "dense smoke"
• hard to pass through because of dense growth
  • "dense vegetation"
• having high relative density or specific gravity
  • "dense as lead"
• slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; ; ; - Thackeray
  • "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"

Adj

• Having relatively high density.
• Compact; crowded together.
• Thick; difficult to penetrate.
• Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
• Obscure or difficult to understand.
• Such that its closure in T is T.
• Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)

Noun

• A thicket.

Adjective

• Closely packed together; thick.

Examples

• The dense cluster of vowels on his rack made finding a Scrabble play challenging.

Synonyms

dim, dull, dumb, heavy, impenetrable, obtuse, slow, thick, Boeotian, Chinese, Greek, abstruse, addlebrained, addlepated, adiaphanous, airheaded, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, blockheaded, boneheaded, boofheaded, brainless, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, bullet-headed, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chuckleheaded, close, cloudy, compact, crackbrained, cretinous, crowded, dense, dented, difficult, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, empty-headed, enigmatic, fatheaded, fathomless, feeble-minded, flea-brained, foolish, fuckwitted, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, hard, idiotic, imbecilic, inane, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensible, insipid, insoluble, insolvable, intellectually challenged, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, mysterious, nitwitted, nontransparent, nonunderstandable, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, oafish, obscure, opacous, opacular, opaque, packed, peabrained, pratty, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, retarded, retruse, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slow-witted, smooth-brained, solid, stolid, stupid, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as two short planks, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickwitted, tight, tough, unapprehensive, unclever, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligent, unintelligible, unknowable, unsmart, ununderstandable, vacant, vacuous, witless, wooden-headed, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded

Antonyms

brainless, bright, canny, clear, compact, comprehensible, confusing, dense, diaphanous, diffuse, dumb, easy, few and far between, foolish, hazy, idiotic, imbecile, incomprehensible, insensible, intelligent, lowbrow, meager, mindless, opaque, quick, quick-witted, rarefied, scattered, see-through, simple, smart, sparse, straightforward, stupid, thin, translucent, transparent, turbid, understandable, unintelligent, witless

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