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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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