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uk/dens/us/dens/dense adjective (THICK)
B2 having parts that are close together so that it is difficult to go or see through:
dense fog
a dense forest
The body was found hidden in dense undergrowth.
Synonym
thick
More examples
- The dense foliage overhead almost blocked out the sun.
- Either side of the river is dense, impenetrable jungle.
- The exhaust pipe belched out dense black smoke.
- A huge cloud of dense smoke stretched across the horizon.
- They had to clear a road through an area of dense forest.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- clunky
- cumbersome
- densely
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- ponderous
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weigh
- weight
- weighty
- wiry
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Opaque
dense adjective (STUPID)
informal stupid:
There are some really dense people in our class.
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Stupid and silly
- (as) thick as two short planks idiom
- absurd
- adolescent
- against your better judgment idiom
- asinine
- be crazy about sb/sth idiom
- dotty
- dozy
- drink, laugh, etc. yourself silly idiom
- drivel
- dumb
- gibber
- laughable
- loony
- loopy
- lumpen
- lumpish
- slow
- witless
- wrongheaded
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dense adjective (MATTER)
specialized physics (of a substance) containing a lot of matter in a small space:
Plutonium is very dense.
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Miscellaneous units of measurement
- acre
- becquerel
- caloric
- calorific
- curie
- farad
- flashpoint
- Gy
- hectare
- horsepower
- kilohertz
- kilojoule
- lumen
- MHz
- millibar
- molal
- molar
- newton
- SI unit
- watt
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