/dɛns/
OriginFrom Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).
- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
“The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…]
There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Hu”
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
“... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Ro”
“And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said t”
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
“And if you're experiencing a weird sensation after that clip that you can't quite place, it's because it was nice! It was happy kids talking about how they're able to be themselves, and you don't usua”
- not-comparableSuch that its closure in T is T.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
“There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft resea”
Formsdenser(comparative) · densest(superlative) · denses(plural)