- having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest;dense population.
- stupid; slow-witted; dull.
- intense; extreme: dense ignorance.
- relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color.
- difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay.
- of or relating to a subset of a topological space in which every neighborhood of every point in the space contains at least one point of the subset.
- thickly crowded or closely set
- thick; impenetrable
- having a high density
- stupid; dull; obtuse
- (of a photographic negative) having many dark or exposed areas
- (of an optical glass, colour, etc) transmitting little or no light
