adjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
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Examples
- dense smoke
- heavy fog
- impenetrable gloom
adjective
hard to pass through because of dense growth
Synonyms
Examples
- dense vegetation
- thick woods
adjective
having high relative density or specific gravity
Examples
- dense as lead
adjective
slow to learn or understand
Synonyms
Examples
- lacking intellectual acuity
- so dense he never understands anything I say to him
- never met anyone quite so dim
- although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray
- dumb officials make some really dumb decisions
- he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse
- worked with the slow students