dense
adjective
[ dɛns ]
• closely compacted in substance.
• "as the storm cleared, a dense fog came down"
Similar:
thick,
heavy,
opaque,
soupy,
murky,
smoggy,
impenetrable,
concentrated,
condensed,
of high density,
• (of a person) stupid.
• "Am I being dense? I don't quite understand"
Similar:
stupid,
unintelligent,
ignorant,
brainless,
mindless,
foolish,
slow,
slow-witted,
dull-witted,
witless,
doltish,
blockish,
dunce-like,
simple-minded,
empty-headed,
vacuous,
vapid,
half-witted,
idiotic,
moronic,
imbecilic,
obtuse,
bovine,
lumpish,
gullible,
naive,
thick,
dim,
dumb,
dopey,
dippy,
dozy,
cretinous,
thickheaded,
chuckleheaded,
dunderheaded,
wooden-headed,
fat-headed,
thick-skulled,
muttonheaded,
boneheaded,
lamebrained,
birdbrained,
pea-brained,
pig-ignorant,
slow on the uptake,
soft in the head,
brain-dead,
dead from the neck up,
daft,
not the full shilling,
as thick as two short planks,
dof,
dotish,
dumb-ass,
• (of a text) hard to understand because of its complexity of ideas.
• "a dark, dense novel"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Latin densus .
