adjective
- having parts that are crowded closely together; thick or compact
- slow to understand; not intelligent
- difficult to see through or penetrate
Usage: informal
Examples
- The dense forest made it hard to see the path.
- Lead is a very dense metal.
- The fog was so dense that we couldn’t drive safely.
- He’s too dense to understand the joke.
- Dense smoke filled the room during the fire.
- The city has a dense population.
- She found the textbook too dense to read quickly.