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Dense

adjective

Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter. Synonyms: heavy, impenetrable. "Heavy fog" , "Impenetrable gloom"

Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Synonym: thick. "Thick woods"

Having high relative density or specific gravity.

Slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity. Synonyms: dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow. "Never met anyone quite so dim" , "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick" , "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions" , "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse" , "Worked with the slow students"

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"Dense" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a tally sheet in his hand, was inciting his battalion to victory. About him the Webb men were summing up the votes needed to bring in their leader. The noise had a dull, baying sound, as if the general voice were growing hoarse. The odour of good and bad tobacco was dense and stifling. In the midst of the clamour a drunken man rose to move that the convention consider the subject ...

— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow

... have punched a hole in the roof, losing our air. So we sort of pulled ourselves along by a system of hand rails on all of the anchored desks, furniture and walls. It was like pulling yourself along the bottom of the ocean by hanging onto rocks, since the air in the lab was dense enough to ...

— The Minus Woman • Russell Robert Winterbotham

... In a dense portion of the forest, where were several aged trees partially decayed at their base, he dimly saw the figure of a man, apparently pinned to the ground by the heavy branches ...

— Neal, the Miller - A Son of Liberty • James Otis

... Clementina's eyes when her heart stirred in their depths. He reached the little footway and turned into the upward cleft of the hills. He walked now into the thick night of a close-grown clump of dwarf-oaks, which weaved so dense a thatch above his head that he knocked against the boles. The trees thinned, he crossed here and there a dimpled lawn in the pure starshine, he traversed a sparse grove of larches in the dreamy twilight, he came out again ...

— Clementina • A.E.W. Mason

... wore on and he recovered in some measure his self-control, he began to view the situation in a different light from that in which it had first appeared to him, although, in strict adherence to fact, he could not be said to have viewed it in any light at all in that first hour or two. It was all dense darkness to him, a black despair not unmingled with anger and a sense of injury. But as he sat alone in his room with its windows looking out over the desert, his naturally confident and optimistic spirit gradually asserted itself. Again and again, and each time more positively, he assured ...

— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

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