Word Meanings - DENSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.

Additional info about word: DENSE

1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper. 2. Stupid; gross; crass; as, dense ignorance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DENSE)

• Brutal
• Savage
• inhuman
• rude
• unfeeling
• merciless
• ruthless
• brutish
• barbarous
• sensual
• beastly
• ignorant
• stolid
• dense
• cruel
• violent
• vindictive
• bloodthirsty
• intemperate
• Close \adj Narrow
• limited
• restricted
• condensed
• packed
• secret
• compressed
• solid
• firm
• compact
• reserved
• niggardly
• shut
• fast
• Compact \adj Dense
• close
• hard
• pithy
• concise
• contracted
• compendious
• convenient
• concentrated
• consolidated
• concrete
• Hard
• Firm
• unyielding
• impenetrable
• arduous
• difficult
• grievous
• distressing
• rigorous
• oppressive
• exacting
• stubborn
• harsh
• forced
• constrained
• inexplicable
• flinty
• severe
• obdurate
• hardened
• callous
• Populous
• Crowded
• swarming
• thronged

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DENSE)

• Open
• initiate
• conduct
• protract

Related words: (words related to DENSE)

• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• INHUMANITY
  The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.
• RESERVE
  1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• SOLIDARE
  A small piece of money. Shak.
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• INEXPLICABLE
  Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others
• IMPENETRABLENESS
  The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability.
• PACKMAN
  One who bears a pack; a peddler.
• CONCRETE
  grow together; con- + crescere to grow; cf. F. concret. See 1. United in growth; hence, formed by coalition of separate particles into one mass; united in a solid form. The first concrete state, or consistent surface, of the chaos must be of the
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• LIMITARIAN
  Tending to limit.
• LIMITIVE
  Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers.
• PACK
  To envelop in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings. See Pack, n., 5. (more info) 1. To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack; to press into close order or
• LIMITABLE
  Capable of being limited.
• SECRETE
  To separate from the blood and elaborate by the process of secretion; to elaborate and emit as a secretion. See Secretion. Why one set of cells should secrete bile, another urea, and so on, we do not known. Carpenter. Syn. -- To conceal; hide. See
• PACKWAX
  See PAXWAX
• MERCILESS
  Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak. Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
• DENSE
  1. Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray.
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• UNLIMITED
  1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.