dense
/dɛns/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [dens] Show IPA Use denser in a Sentence
–adjective, dens⋅er, dens⋅est. 1. having the component parts closely compacted together; crowded or compact: a dense forest; dense population. 2. stupid; slow-witted; dull. 3. intense; extreme: dense ignorance. 4. relatively opaque; transmitting little light, as a photographic negative, optical glass, or color. 5. difficult to understand or follow because of being closely packed with ideas or complexities of style: a dense philosophical essay. 6. Mathematics. of or pertaining 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.
Origin:
1590–1600;
Related forms:
densely, adverb
denseness, noun
Synonyms:
1. congested, crammed, teeming; impenetrable.
We were all stupid for thinking it was 'dancer' when the song makes so much more sense when it's 'denser'.