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Synonyms for dense
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Wiktionary
denseadjective
Having relatively high density.
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soliddenseadjective
Compact; crowded together.
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crowded, packed, compactAntonyms:
sparse, rarefied, few and far between, scattered, diffusedenseadjective
Thick; difficult to penetrate.
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thindenseadjective
Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
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diaphanous, translucent, see-through, transparent, cleardenseadjective
Obscure, or difficult to understand.
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abstruse, incomprehensible, hard, obscure, difficult, toughAntonyms:
comprehensible, straightforward, simple, understandable, easy, cleardenseadjective
Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.
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slow, stupid, dumb, thickAntonyms:
quick, canny, smart, bright, quick-witted, intelligentdenseadjective
Antonyms:
meager
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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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 Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective
permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
"dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
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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, leadenAntonyms:
penetrable, smart, light, thindense, thickadjective
hard to pass through because of dense growth
"dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
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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, slurredAntonyms:
thin, penetrable, smart, lightdenseadjective
having high relative density or specific gravity
"dense as lead"
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heavy, dull, obtuse, impenetrable, dim, thick, dumb, slowAntonyms:
penetrable, light, smart, thindense, 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"
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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, leadenAntonyms:
thin, smart, light, penetrable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
denseadjective
Synonyms:
close, compact, condensed, compressed, thick
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "dense":
denso, thick, high-density, heavy, intensive, density, electron-dense, densities, opaque, ultra-dense, intense
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How to use dense in a sentence?
There is a benefit in being part of the engineering culture in Silicon Valley... a different sort of skill set that you acquire from being in senior positions or being around such a dense population of startups.
When your eyes are blue with tears and your soul is dense with fears remember God still holds you dear and with his angels keeps you clear.
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.
If you're talking about a crime that occurred at 6 p.m. on a Saturday in a highly dense, congested residential area, somebody had to have seen or heard something.
Town planners today in tropical regions are adopting the dispersed approach in cities rather than the dense vertical approach, so actually even today we’re now realizing that what they were doing in the past was the best way to support dense populations in a given region.
Translations for dense
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- كثيفArabic
- гъст, плътен, тъп, компактен, непрозрачен, глупавBulgarian
- densCatalan, Valencian
- hustýCzech
- tæt, kompaktDanish
- dichtGerman
- espeso, obscuro, denso, cabeza dura, compacto, enigmático, tupido, menso, macizoSpanish
- sankka, tiivis, tiheä, hämärä, pimeä, taajaFinnish
- dlúthIrish
- סתוםHebrew
- խիտ, թանձրArmenian
- denso, pastosoItalian
- 密, 濃いJapanese
- blīvsLatvian
- apiapi, whakaapiMāori
- збиен, густMacedonian
- tępy, zbity, gęsty, zwartyPolish
- ګڼ, ټينګPashto, Pushto
- denso, compactoPortuguese
- тупой, густой, плотный, компактный, непрозрачный, глупыйRussian
- tät, kompakt, trögSwedish
- yoğunTurkish
- đặcVietnamese
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