adjective (denser, densest)
1 containing a lot of people, things, plants, etc. with little space between them:
a dense crowd / forest * areas of dense population
2 difficult to see through:
dense fog / smoke / fumes
3 (informal) stupid:
How can you be so dense?
4 difficult to understand because it contains a lot of information:
a dense piece of writing
5 (technical) heavy in relation to its size:
Less dense substances move upwards to form a crust.
densely adverb:
a densely populated area * densely covered / packed
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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