dense

 
Pronunciation: /dɛns/

adjective

  • 1closely compacted in substance: as the storm cleared, a dense fog came down
  • having the constituent parts crowded closely together: she made her way through the dense undergrowth
  • 2 informal (of a person) stupid: Am I being dense? I don’t quite understand
  • 3(of a text) hard to understand because of its complexity of ideas: a dark, dense novel

Derivatives

densely

adverb

denseness

noun

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin densus