Antonyms for dense
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1. denseadjective

   Having relatively high density.

   Synonyms:
   solid

2. denseadjective

   Compact; crowded together.

   Antonyms:
   sparse, rarefied, few and far between, scattered, diffuse

   Synonyms:
   crowded, packed, compact

3. denseadjective

   Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Antonyms:
   thin

   Synonyms:
   solid, thick

4. denseadjective

   Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Antonyms:
   diaphanous, translucent, see-through, transparent, clear

   Synonyms:
   cloudy, opaque

5. denseadjective

   Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Antonyms:
   comprehensible, straightforward, simple, understandable, easy, clear

   Synonyms:
   abstruse, incomprehensible, hard, obscure, difficult, tough

6. denseadjective

   Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Antonyms:
   quick, canny, smart, bright, quick-witted, intelligent

   Synonyms:
   slow, stupid, dumb, thick

7. denseadjective

   Antonyms:
   meager

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dense

   That is obscure which the eye or the mind can not clearly discern or see through, whether because of its own want of transparency, its depth or intricacy, or because of mere defect of light. That which is complicated is likely to be obscure, but that may be obscure which is not at all complicated and scarcely complex, as a muddy pool. In that which is abstruse (Latin abs, from, and trudo, push) as if removed from the usual course of thought or out of the way of apprehension or discovery, the thought is remote, hidden; in that which is obscure there may be nothing to hide; it is hard to see to the bottom of the profound, because of its depth, but the most shallow turbidness is obscure. Compare COMPLEX; DARK; DIFFICULT; MYSTERIOUS.

   See synonyms for CLEAR.

   Synonyms:
   abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, complex, complicated, dark, darksome, deep, difficult, dim, doubtful, dusky, enigmatical, hidden, incomprehensible, indistinct, intricate, involved, muddy, mysterious, obscure, profound, turbid, unintelligible

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dense

   Antonyms:
   quick, clever, intelligent, rare, rarefied, uncompacted, sparse

   Synonyms:
   slow, thick, stupid, stolid, solid, stout, compact, consolidated, condensed, close, thickset

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective

   permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

   "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

   Antonyms:
   penetrable, smart, light, thin

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, heavy, dull, overweight, toilsome, slow, intemperate, sound, dumb, wakeless, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, profound, lowering, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), arduous, operose, dim, heavy(p), big(a), labored, punishing, thick, gravid, big(p), obtuse, leaden

2. dense, thickadjective

   hard to pass through because of dense growth

   "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

   Antonyms:
   thin, penetrable, smart, light

   Synonyms:
   duncical, duncish, dull, dim, thickheaded, thick(p), loggerheaded, impenetrable, chummy, thick-skulled, thickset, dumb, deep, slow, blockheaded, heavy, compact, stocky, boneheaded, wooden-headed, heavyset, obtuse, buddy-buddy, fatheaded, thick, slurred

3. denseadjective

   having high relative density or specific gravity

   "dense as lead"

   Antonyms:
   penetrable, light, smart, thin

   Synonyms:
   heavy, dull, obtuse, impenetrable, dim, thick, dumb, slow

4. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   thin, smart, light, penetrable

   Synonyms:
   vague, ho-hum, muted, sluggish, subdued, deadening, faint, mute, slow, thudding, boring, dumb, irksome, black, silent, wispy, heavy, dim, purblind, muffled, tedious, impenetrable, dull, dimmed, speechless, shadowy, tiresome, softened, bleak, thick, wearisome, obtuse, leaden

How to use dense in a sentence?

1. Mark Milley:

   Given the type of forces that are arrayed... if that was unleashed on Ukraine, it would be significant, very significant, and it would result in a significant amount of casualties, you can imagine what that might look like in dense urban areas, along roads, and so on and so forth. It would be horrific. It would be terrible. And it's not necessary. And we think a diplomatic outcome is the way to go here.

2. Eric Abbruzzese:

   Something dense like cybersecurity may have more issue in adapting content to a visual-first medium than something like biology.

3. Mariana Fulger:

   Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dense that it does not resonate with anything from outside.

4. Maria Uriarte:

   These are some of the trees that have denser wood, and trees with very dense wood historically have very low break rates and mortality rates, this storm was different -- trees 100 years old or more were broken. A proportion of these trees will be able rebuild the biomass and recover, and a number of them won't.

5. De Langen:

   The main benefit is a much more dense utilization of terminal space.

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