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dense

/dens/  ·  say it: dens

closely packed together

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1. (adjective) closely packed together with little empty space

2. (adjective) difficult to understand; complicated

3. (adjective) thick and hard to see through

Examples

• 1. The forest was so dense that sunlight barely reached the ground.
• 2. This physics textbook is very dense and hard to follow.
• 3. Dense fog made driving dangerous.

Nearby in Describing & Comparing

meager, abundant, sparse, myriad, solitary, uniform