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dense en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/ˈdens/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
(US) audio
/ˈdɛns/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈdɪns/ (US, pin-pen-merger)

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

Meanings

Having relatively high density.
Compact; crowded together.
- 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. 1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 172, 173:
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- ... 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 ... 1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44:
- 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. 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
Obscure or difficult to understand.
- And if you're experiencing a weird sensation after that clip that you can't quite place, it's because it was nice! It was happy kids talking about how they're able to be themselves, and you don't usually get nice things on this show, which at this point is honestly mainly dense statistics and facts and occasional Pikachu porn! 2025 April 6, 31:34 from the start, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 12, episode 7, spoken by John Oliver, published 7 April 2025, retrieved 14 Apr 2025:
(not-comparable, of a subset S of a topological space T) Such that its closure in T is T.
Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- 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. 2023 May 16, Cade Metz, “Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
densest	Degree=Sup		lexicographic
denser	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic

Translations (193)

fr dense (having relatively high density) · ko 짙다 (having relatively high density) · hy թանձր (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · hy խիտ (compact; crowded together) · et tihe (having relatively high density) · da kompakt (having relatively high density) · es denso (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · cmn 稠密 (having relatively high density) · kk қалың (having relatively high density) · ka ხშირი (having relatively high density) · fi tiheä (having relatively high density) · bho घना (having relatively high density) · az sıx (having relatively high density) · mi whakaapi (compact; crowded together) · ca dens (having relatively high density) · fi sankka (compact; crowded together) · hy թանձր (compact; crowded together) · lt tankus (having relatively high density) · sv tät (having relatively high density) · de dicht (compact; crowded together) · gl basto (compact; crowded together) · uz zich (having relatively high density) · ota كور (thick; difficult to penetrate) · es macizo (compact; crowded together) · es tonto (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · cmn 密 (having relatively high density) · hu sűrű (having relatively high density) · ka მჭიდრო (having relatively high density) · tr sık (having relatively high density) · la dēnsus (having relatively high density) · fi tiivis (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · eve ног (having relatively high density) · es (subconjunto) denso (math: being a well-approximating subset) · fi tiheä (compact; crowded together) · cs hustý (having relatively high density) · grc σπιδνός (having relatively high density) · he סָתוּם (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · uk густи́й (having relatively high density) · is þéttur (having relatively high density) · gl denso (thick; difficult to penetrate) · tg ғализ (having relatively high density) · bg гъст (thick; difficult to penetrate) · lo ທຶບ (having relatively high density) · enm sad (having relatively high density) · my ထူ (having relatively high density) · bg непрозра́чен (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · km ក្រាស់ (having relatively high density) · fi tiheä (thick; difficult to penetrate) · pl gęsty (having relatively high density) · dsb gusty (having relatively high density) · ms tebal (having relatively high density) · ky жыш (having relatively high density) · es denso (having relatively high density) · gld лугди (having relatively high density) · tk goýy (having relatively high density) · ru густо́й (thick; difficult to penetrate) · ru непрозра́чный (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · ky калың (having relatively high density) · da tæt (math: being a well-approximating subset) · ja 濃い (having relatively high density) · eo densa (having relatively high density) · tr kalın (having relatively high density) · ps ټينګ (having relatively high density) · ru глу́пый (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · vi dày đặc (compact; crowded together) · fa غلیظ (having relatively high density) · bg компа́ктен (compact; crowded together) · mi pururua (having relatively high density) · mn нягт (having relatively high density) · fr bouché (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · fi pimeä (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · ota قویو (having relatively high density) · th ทึบ (having relatively high density) · de dicht (thick; difficult to penetrate) · pl zwarty (compact; crowded together) · gl denso (having relatively high density) · gl compacto (compact; crowded together) · de dicht (math: being a well-approximating subset) · es espeso (thick; difficult to penetrate) · bg гъст (having relatively high density) · es cabeza dura (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · th แน่น (having relatively high density) · bg плъ́тен (having relatively high density) · hy խիտ (thick; difficult to penetrate) · mk збиен (compact; crowded together) · ru пло́тный (compact; crowded together) · pl szczelny (having relatively high density) · bg тъп (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · uz tigʻiz (having relatively high density) · cmn 濃 /浓 (having relatively high density) · sh гу̑ст (having relatively high density) · enm sad (compact; crowded together) · it pastoso (obscure, or difficult to understand) · ar غَلِيظ (having relatively high density) · es tupido (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · mi pururua (compact; crowded together) · fi tiivis (thick; difficult to penetrate) · pt denso (compact; crowded together) · fi tiivis (compact; crowded together) · he עבות \ עָבֹת (having relatively high density) · lv blīvs (having relatively high density) · mi apiapi (compact; crowded together) · es denso (thick; difficult to penetrate) · vi dày (compact; crowded together) · grc πυκνός (having relatively high density) · pl gęsty (math: being a well-approximating subset) · sv tät (compact; crowded together) · pl zbity (compact; crowded together) · mi pururua (thick; difficult to penetrate) · la spissus (compact; crowded together) · bn ঘন (having relatively high density) · sk hustý (having relatively high density) · fr obscur (obscure, or difficult to understand) · sh gȗst (having relatively high density) · ru густо́й (having relatively high density) · nl dicht (having relatively high density) · fi tiheä (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · mk густ (having relatively high density) · es obscuro (obscure, or difficult to understand) · lo ແໜ້ນ (having relatively high density) · pt espesso (thick; difficult to penetrate) · fi hämärä (obscure, or difficult to understand) · bg плъ́тен (compact; crowded together) · bo མཐུག་པོ (having relatively high density) · dsb gusty (thick; difficult to penetrate) · pt denso (thick; difficult to penetrate) · it denso (having relatively high density) · hil garót (compact; crowded together) · oc dens (having relatively high density) · tk ýygjam (having relatively high density) · fi tiheä (math: being a well-approximating subset) · sl góst (having relatively high density) · be шчы́льны (having relatively high density) · mk густ (thick; difficult to penetrate) · ru тупо́й (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · km ជុក (having relatively high density) · sv trög (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · ru пло́тный (having relatively high density) · ja 密 (having relatively high density) · pt denso (having relatively high density) · cs hustý (compact; crowded together) · da tæt (compact; crowded together) · es menso (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · ru компа́ктный (compact; crowded together) · sv kompakt (compact; crowded together) · vi dày đặc (having relatively high density) · tg ғафс (having relatively high density) · hi घना (having relatively high density) · es enigmático (obscure, or difficult to understand) · uz qalin (having relatively high density) · ota یوغون (having relatively high density) · es obtuso (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · gl basto (having relatively high density) · de dicht (opaque; allowing little light to pass through) · sl góst (thick; difficult to penetrate) · lo ຖີ່ (having relatively high density) · es compacto (compact; crowded together) · enm sad (thick; difficult to penetrate) · fi taaja (compact; crowded together) · da tæt (thick; difficult to penetrate) · de dicht (having relatively high density) · mi whakaapi (having relatively high density) · vi chặt (having relatively high density) · mi apiapi (having relatively high density) · grc πυκνός (compact; crowded together) · lt tirštas (having relatively high density) · sq i dendur (having relatively high density) · az qalın (having relatively high density) · ur گهنا (having relatively high density) · be густы́ (having relatively high density) · ar كَثِيف (having relatively high density) · kix tèih (having relatively high density) · vi đặc (having relatively high density) · ro dens (having relatively high density) · ga dlúth (having relatively high density) · ms padat (having relatively high density) · uk щі́льний (having relatively high density) · tr yoğun (having relatively high density) · hil magarót (compact; crowded together) · hy թանձր (thick; difficult to penetrate) · dsb gusty (compact; crowded together) · fa چگال (having relatively high density) · ps ګڼ (compact; crowded together) · da tæt (having relatively high density) · nb tett (having relatively high density) · pt compacto (compact; crowded together) · de dicht (obscure, or difficult to understand) · hy խիտ (having relatively high density) · tg зич (having relatively high density) · zza qalın (having relatively high density) · pl tępy (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · bg глупав (slow to comprehend; of low intelligence) · el πυκνός (having relatively high density)

dense en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈdens/ (Australia, New-Zealand)
(US) audio
/ˈdɛns/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
/ˈdɪns/ (US, pin-pen-merger)

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

Meanings

A thicket.

Forms

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