Meaning & Definition of Dense in English

1. Permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

• "Dense smoke"

• "Heavy fog"

• "Impenetrable gloom"

2. Hard to pass through because of dense growth

• "Dense vegetation"

• "Thick woods"

3. Having high relative density or specific gravity

• "Dense as lead"

4. Slow to learn or understand

• Lacking intellectual acuity

• "So dense he never understands anything i say to him"

• "Never met anyone quite so dim"

• "Although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- thackeray

• "Dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"

• "He was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"

• "Worked with the slow students"