2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dense \Dense\, a. [L. densus; akin to Gr ? thick with hair or
leaves: cf F. dense.]
1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together;
close compact; thick; containing much matter in a small
space; heavy; opaque; as a dense crowd; a dense forest; a
dense fog.
All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare
--Ray.
To replace the cloudy barrier dense. --Cowper.
2. Stupid; gross; crass; as dense ignorance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dense
adj 1: permitting little if any light to pass through because of
denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog";
"impenetrable gloom" [syn: {heavy}, {impenetrable}]
2: closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a
dense population"; "thick crowds" [syn: {compact}, {thick}]
3: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense
vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: {thick}]
4: having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as
lead"
5: slow to learn or understand; 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"
[syn: {dim}, {dull}, {dumb}, {obtuse}, {slow}]
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