densely
/ˈdɛnsli
/adverb
1In a closely compacted or crowded manner; thickly: a densely populated country densely packed layers the best way to keep weeds at bay is to plant densely...
- The paintings feature window-like vistas of the ocean that relieve the densely decorated foregrounds.
- Studies in Costa Rica showed that screwworm flies prefer thick, densely forested areas to open pastures.
- Today the concept of a pedestrian-friendly, densely built community of wood-frame cottages hardly seems avant-garde.
2In a manner that is hard to understand because of its complexity: densely plotted historical fiction...
- Few shortcuts are taken with the material, leaving densely convoluted plots.
- The language's highly flexible syntax and concise regular expression operators, make densely written PERL code indecipherable to the uninitiated.
- My rationale was, if you can enunciate densely rhymed verse, and understand the syntax, you can speak the language.
3 informal In a stupid manner: staff can be surly should they decide a customer is behaving densely [as submodifier]: he is densely ignorant and primitive...
- The horse is a densely stupid animal.
- Kurtz is being densely literal-minded.
- The plot is paper-thin, the script is awful, and the acting densely wooden.