dense

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   having high relative density or specific gravity

   dense as lead

2. 2
   adj

   hard to pass through because of dense growth

   dense vegetation

3. 3
   adj

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

   dense smoke

4. 4
   adj

   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; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu.

5. 5
   adj

   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 (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...

6. 6
   adj

   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 usually get nice things on this show, which at this point is honestly mainly dense statistics and facts and occasional Pikachu porn!

7. 7
   adj

   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 researcher, said.

8. 8
   adj

   slow to learn or understand

Etymology

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).