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English
Etymology
From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)
- Having relatively high density.
- Synonym: solid
- Compact; crowded together.
- Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
- Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Synonyms: thick, solid
- Antonym: thin
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XIII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque
- Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent
- Obscure, or difficult to understand.
- Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
- Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
- (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
- Antonym: meager
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
- Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid
- Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent
2023 May 16, Cade Metz, “Microsoft Says New A.I. Shows Signs of Human Reasoning”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said.
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Translations
having relatively high density
- Albanian: i dendur (sq)
- Arabic: كَثِيف (kaṯīf), غَلِيظ (ḡalīẓ)
- Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit)
- Azerbaijani: qalın (az), sıx (az)
- Belarusian: густы́ (be) (hustý), шчы́льны (be) (ščýlʹny)
- Bengali: ঘন (bn) (ghon)
- Bulgarian: гъст (bg) (gǎst), плъ́тен (bg) (plǎ́ten)
- Burmese: ထူ (my) (htu)
- Catalan: dens (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 密 (zh) (mì), 稠密 (zh) (chóumì), 濃/浓 (zh) (nóng)
- Czech: hustý (cs)
- Danish: kompakt, tæt
- Dutch: dicht (nl)
- Esperanto: densa
- Estonian: tihe
- Even: ног (nog)
- Finnish: tiheä (fi)
- French: dense (fr)
- Galician: denso (gl), basto
- Georgian: ხშირი (xširi), მჭიდრო (mč̣idro)
- German: dicht (de)
- Greek: πυκνός (el) (pyknós)
- Ancient: πυκνός (puknós), σπιδνός (spidnós)
- Hebrew: עבות \ עָבֹת (he) ('avót)
- Hindi: घना (hi) (ghanā)
- Hungarian: sűrű (hu)
- Icelandic: þéttur (is)
- Irish: dlúth
- Italian: denso (it)
- Japanese: 濃い (ja) (こい, koi), 密 (ja) (mitsu)
- Kazakh: қалың (qalyñ)
- Khmer: ជុក (km) (cuk), ក្រាស់ (km) (krah)
- Korean: 짙다 (ko) (jitda)
- Kyrgyz: калың (ky) (kalıŋ), жыш (ky) (jış)
- Lao: ຖີ່ (thī), ແໜ້ນ (nǣn), ທຶບ (thưp)
- Latin: dēnsus
- Latvian: blīvs
- Lithuanian: tankus, tirštas
- Macedonian: густ (gust)
- Malay: padat (ms), tebal (ms)
- Maori: pururua (of vegetation), whakaapi, apiapi
- Middle English: sad
- Mongolian: нягт (mn) (njagt)
- Nanai: лугди (lugʒi)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tett
- Occitan: dens (oc)
- Ottoman Turkish: قویو (koyu), یوغون (yoğun)
- Pashto: ټينګ (ṭing)
- Persian: چگال (fa) (čegâl), غلیظ (fa) (ğaliz)
- Polish: gęsty (pl), szczelny (pl)
- Portuguese: denso (pt)
- Romanian: dens (ro)
- Russian: густо́й (ru) (gustój) (viscous), пло́тный (ru) (plótnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гу̑ст
- Roman: gȗst (sh)
- Slovak: hustý
- Slovene: góst (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gusty
- Spanish: denso (es)
- Swedish: tät (sv)
- Tajik: зич (zič), ғализ (ġaliz), ғафс (tg) (ġafs)
- Thai: แน่น (th) (nɛ̂n), ทึบ (th) (tʉ́p)
- Tibetan: མཐུག་པོ (mthug po)
- Turkish: yoğun (tr), sık (tr), kalın (tr)
- Turkmen: ýygjam, goýy
- Ukrainian: густи́й (uk) (hustýj), щі́льний (uk) (ščílʹnyj)
- Urdu: گهنا (ghanā)
- Uzbek: zich (uz), qalin (uz), tigʻiz (uz)
- Vietnamese: đặc (vi), dày đặc (vi), chặt (vi)
- Zazaki: qalın c
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compact; crowded together
- Armenian: խիտ (hy) (xit), թանձր (hy) (tʻanjr)
- Bulgarian: плъ́тен (bg) (plǎ́ten), компа́ктен (bg) (kompákten)
- Czech: hustý (cs)
- Danish: tæt
- Finnish: tiheä (fi), tiivis (fi), taaja (fi), sankka (fi)
- Galician: compacto, basto
- German: dicht (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: πυκνός (puknós)
- Hiligaynon: garót, magarót
- Italian: (please verify) denso (it)
- Latin: spissus
- Macedonian: збиен (zbien)
- Maori: apiapi, whakaapi, whakaapi, pururua (of vegetation)
- Middle English: sad
- Pashto: ګڼ (gëṇ)
- Polish: zwarty (pl), zbity (pl)
- Portuguese: compacto (pt), denso (pt)
- Russian: пло́тный (ru) (plótnyj), компа́ктный (ru) (kompáktnyj)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: gusty
- Spanish: compacto (es), macizo (es)
- Swedish: tät (sv), kompakt (sv)
- Vietnamese: dày (vi), dày đặc (vi)
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thick; difficult to penetrate
opaque; allowing little light to pass through
obscure, or difficult to understand
math: being a well-approximating subset
slow to comprehend; of low intelligence
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Noun
dense (plural denses)
- A thicket.
Anagrams
Esperanto
Etymology
From densa + -e.
Adverb
dense
- densely
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dense (plural denses)
- dense
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Further reading
Italian
Adjective
dense f pl
- feminine plural of denso
Latin
Etymology
From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) + -ē (adverbial suffix).
Pronunciation
Adverb
dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)
- closely, in rapid succession
Related terms
References
- “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Spanish
Verb
dense
- third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se