dense

dense is a 5-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 7 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
3. adjective. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity- Thackeray

   "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"

   "never met anyone quite so dim"

   Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow

4. adjective. having high relative density or specific gravity

   "dense as lead"

5. adjective. hard to pass through because of dense growth

   "dense vegetation"

   "thick woods"

   Synonyms: thick

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

   "dense smoke"

   "heavy fog"

   Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable

Synonyms

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

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in dense:

denes, needs

Common word forms

denser, densely, densest, denseness

Words from these letters

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