Dictionary Entry

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

1adjective
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.
2adjective
Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.
3adjective
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
4adjective
having high relative density or specific gravity
"dense as lead"
5adjective
hard to pass through because of dense growth
"dense vegetation"
"thick woods"
Synonyms
thick
6adjective
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

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