dense : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: dense	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
dense adj permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" Synonym(s): dense, heavy, impenetrable hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" Synonym(s): dense, thick having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead" 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" Synonym(s): dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow
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.