Dense

Quick meaning: Dense is an adjective meaning Having relatively high density.

Meaning

Having relatively high density.

More Meanings

1. Compact; crowded together.
2. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
3. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
4. Obscure or difficult to understand.
5. (mathematics, topology, of a subset S of a topological space T, not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.
6. Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
7. A thicket.

Example Sentences

There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said.

The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…] There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu.

... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron .

And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.

Word Forms

• denser
• densest
• denses

Synonyms for dense

Depending on context, synonyms include solid, compact, crowded, packed, close, thick.

Antonyms for dense

Common opposites include diffuse, scattered, sparse, rarefied, dispersed, incompact.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include heavy, thick, concentrated, slow, dull, stupid.

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