denselyadverb
uk/ˈdens.li/us/ˈdens.li/B2 with a lot of things close together:
England was once a densely wooded country (= a lot of trees grew close together there).
Mexico City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world (= a lot of people live close together there).
His books tend to be densely written (= contain a lot of information and ideas and are difficult to understand).
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- The garden is very densely planted, leaving little opportunity for weeds to get established.
- The foot soldiers stood in densely packed rows.
- This was the most densely occupied area of the country during that period.
- The fur grows very densely, keeping the animal's skin dry and largely insect-free.
- From the plane we could see the plains below, densely covered with zebra, wildebeest and antelope.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- clunky
- cumbersome
- dense
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- ponderous
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weigh
- weight
- weighty
- wiry
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