Definition if word dense

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  1) пло́тный; густо́й; компа́ктный;

  2) ча́стый; густо́й;

  3) тупо́й, глу́пый

  4)

  фото

  пло́тный, непрозра́чный

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  dense atmosphere

  плотная атмосфера

  dense upper clouds

  плотный верхний слой облака

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  dense

  n

  Англо-русский строительный словарь. — М.: Русский Язык.
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  1995.

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  dense 1. плотный, густой; 2. дремучий

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  [dens]

  dense плотный; компактный; dense texture плотная ткань; dense ignorance глубокое невежество; dense population высокая плотность населения dense тупой, глупый dense фото плотный, непрозрачный dense частый; густой; dense forest густой лес dense частый; густой; dense forest густой лес dense плотный; компактный; dense texture плотная ткань; dense ignorance глубокое невежество; dense population высокая плотность населения dense плотный; компактный; dense texture плотная ткань; dense ignorance глубокое невежество; dense population высокая плотность населения dense плотный; компактный; dense texture плотная ткань; dense ignorance глубокое невежество; dense population высокая плотность населения

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  dens прил.
  1) а) плотный;
  сжатый;
  густой, частый б) хим. плотный (о консистенции и структуре химического вещества) oxygen is quite a dense gas ≈ кислород — довольно плотный газ Syn: compact
  2) а) тупоголовый, тупой, глупый Syn: foolish, silly, thick-headed б) вопиющий, непомерный, чрезвычайный, полнейший( о степени безграмотности, необразованности, невежественности) Syn: profound, intense, impenetrable, crass
  3) мат. плотный ( о множестве)
  4) фото непрозрачный, плотный
  густой;
  плотный, компактный;
  густо или часто расположенный — cloth of * texture плотная ткань — * forest густой лес — * crowd большая /плотная/ толпа — a district * with population многонаселенный район — * stand /crop/ (сельскохозяйственное) сомкнутое насаждение;
  густой стеблестой;
  загущенная культура( усилительно) глубокий, крайний, полнейший — * stupidity непроходимая тупость;
  бестолковость — * ignorance полнейшее невежество — * darkness непроницаемая темнота, густой /плотный/ мрак( разговорное) тупой, глупый — * head глупая голова — * fellow совершенный осел, непроходимый тупица (оптика) плотный, непрозрачный (электроника) компактный — * circuitry (профессионализм) компактный или плотный монтаж
  dense плотный;
  компактный;
  dense texture плотная ткань;
  dense ignorance глубокое невежество;
  dense population высокая плотность населения ~ тупой, глупый ~ фото плотный, непрозрачный ~ частый;
  густой;
  dense forest густой лес
  ~ частый;
  густой;
  dense forest густой лес
  dense плотный;
  компактный;
  dense texture плотная ткань;
  dense ignorance глубокое невежество;
  dense population высокая плотность населения
  dense плотный;
  компактный;
  dense texture плотная ткань;
  dense ignorance глубокое невежество;
  dense population высокая плотность населения
  dense плотный;
  компактный;
  dense texture плотная ткань;
  dense ignorance глубокое невежество;
  dense population высокая плотность населения

  Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > dense

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  1. a густой; плотный, компактный; густо или часто расположенный

  2. a усил. глубокий, крайний, полнейший

  3. a разг. тупой, глупый

  4. a опт. плотный, непрозрачный

  5. a элк. компактный

  Синонимический ряд:

  1. close (adj.) close; compact; crowded; impenetrable; solid; tight

  2. heavy (adj.) copious; heavy; lush; luxuriant; profuse; rank; thick

  3. stupid (adj.) beefheaded; beef-witted; beetleheaded; blear-eyed; blear-witted; blockheaded; blockish; chuckleheaded; doltish; dull; dumb; duncical; fatheaded; goosey; half-witted; hammerheaded; ignorant; imbecilic; moronic; numskulled; pinhead; pinheaded; simple; stupid; thickheaded; thick-witted

  Антонимический ряд:

  smart; sparse; thin

  English-Russian base dictionary > dense

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  [dens]

  1. густой; плотный, компактный; густо часто расположенный

  dense forest [fog] — густой лес [туман]

  dense crowd — большая /плотная/ толпа

  dense stand /crop/ — а) сомкнутое насаждение; густой стеблестой; б) загущённая культура

  2.

  глубокий, крайний, полнейший

  dense stupidity — непроходимая тупость; бестолковость

  dense darkness — непроницаемая темнота, густой /плотный/ мрак

  dense fellow — совершенный осёл, непроходимый тупица

  4. 1)

  плотный, непрозрачный

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  [den(t)s]

  прил.

  1) плотный; сжатый; густой, частый

  Ant:

  2) густой, плотный; непрозрачный

  Oxygen is quite a dense gas. — Кислород — довольно плотный газ.

  Syn:

  3)

  разг.

  тупоголовый, тупой, глупый

  Syn:

  4) информативный; трудный для понимания

  5) крайний, чрезмерный, вопиющий

  Syn:

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  adjective

  1) плотный; компактный; dense texture плотная ткань; dense ignorance глубокое невежество; dense population высокая плотность населения

  2) частый; густой; dense forest густой лес

  3) тупой, глупый

  4) phot. плотный, непрозрачный

  Syn:

  compact

  * * *

  * * *

  густой, плотный

  * * *

  [ dens]
  густой, плотный; дремучий, непрозрачный; частый; компактный; тупой, глупый, недогадливый

  * * *

  глупый

  густ

  густой

  изобилен

  изобильный

  компактный

  непрозрачный

  обилен

  обильный

  плотен

  плотный

  тупой

  убористый

  частый

  * * *

  1) а) плотный
  б) хим. плотный
  2) а) тупоголовый
  б) вопиющий, непомерный, чрезвычайный, полнейший

  Новый англо-русский словарь > dense

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  1. плотный
  2. плотное огнеупорное изделие
  3. плотная
  4. густой

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  Английский-русский словарь по теории вероятностей, статистике и комбинаторике > dense

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— Updated example sentences

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /dɛns/
• Rhymes: -ɛns

Adjective[edit]

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Synonym: solid

2. Compact; crowded together.

   Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact

   Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. (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

7. (of a person) Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid

   Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

Antonyms[edit]

• (crowded together): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

dense (plural denses)

1. A thicket.

Anagrams[edit]

• Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed

Esperanto[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From densa +‎ -e.

Adverb[edit]

dense

1. densely

French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin densus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /dɑ̃s/

Adjective[edit]

dense (plural denses)

1. dense

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• condenser
• densité

Further reading[edit]

• “dense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

dense f pl

1. feminine plural of denso

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From dēnsus (“dense, close, frequent”) +‎ -ē (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈden.seː/, [ˈd̪ẽːs̠eː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈden.se/, [ˈd̪ɛnse]

Adverb[edit]

dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)

1. closely, in rapid succession

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References[edit]

• “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[edit]

Verb[edit]

dense

1. third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se

If, then, what we call a dense body is so by reason of the presence of many qualities, that plenitude of qualities will be the cause [of the inhibition]. ❋ Plotinus (1952)

Agent Orange was the code name of a herbicide developed for the military to prohibit enemy concealment in dense terrain by defoliating trees and shrubbery where the enemy could hide. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well-educated professionals and creative workers who live together in dense ecosystems, interacting directly, generate ideas and turn them into products and services faster than talented people in other places can. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once covered in dense forests, Elasha Biyaha is far enough from the capital to avoids the regular shelling between al Shabaab, a militant group believed to have al Qaeda ties, and African Union-backed government troops. ❋ Abdinasir Mohamed (2010)

The closest I got was trying to find my car after ice fishing in dense fog — everything was white. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Masked warrior had pated dust on body, disappear in dense smother and fog. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Public transport is great in dense population areas, but less so outside of them, to the point where if your outside the city, you have to drive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

“Interactive individuals sacrifice something by locating in dense tracts.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

We’ve enveloped world in dense chain of supermarkets with global trade, we can eat food from around the world. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Carsharing is only practical in dense central city areas where car ownership is low and transit use is high. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The dynamic balcony offers a solution for compact apartments in dense urban areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In this day and age here in dense Seattle we can’t just have streets serve cars alone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[O] fficials on Tuesday said that a pheasant hunter from Alaska shot and killed a sow grizzly in dense brush east of U.S. Highway 89 and about 8 miles north of Choteau on Monday …. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or to elaborate on another, what if innovation and investment occurs at a more rapid pace because of activities conducted by elites in dense cities? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Karl Hansen «Sergeant Pepper»; it’s easy to imagine Cameron writing a plot for «Avatar» after having red Hansens novel; soldiers «protecting» exploatation of Titan inhabited by genetically engeneered humans — creatures taller than average Homo sapiens and able to «glide» in dense atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That’s good news, but it leaves about 50 million addresses that Census workers must check out — most in dense city neighborhoods, minority communities and rural spots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“That residents living in dense census tracts have fewer confidants.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

The blocks are covered in dense comic art that reminds me of the Sergio Argones marginalia in MAD Magazine — a million zillion sight gags on the theme of «Oh God the baby is coming to destroy us all!» ❋ Unknown (2009)

Readers who love living in dense, walkable, bikable close-in neighborhoods might watching the greatest rant against suburbs of all time in this TED Talk by James Kunstler: www. ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissect … ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you had to [read this] definition several times to [understand] it — and you still don’t really understand it, it is [because you are] dense. ❋ Unicornmoans (2010)

[People] are [really] dense. ❋ Lilmissjessi (2003)

Water isn’t very dense, with an [approximate] 1.[00] g/[mL].
Ryan is very dense. He makes a fool of herself daily!
… is a dense. ❋ Urbandictionarytom (2015)

[Tim]: [How are you] watching that song while reading that book?
Me: Obviously I’m listening to the song while [reading the book].
Oh man it’s getting really dense in here. ❋ LoOped (2011)

Dealer: Here you go man.
Pothead: Are you sure this is an eighth?
Dealer: Yea,it’s really dense man.
Pothead: Well let me whip out my scale. (Places [nugs] [on scale]. Scale reads 2.[7g].
Dealer: I’m sure it’s dried a little.
Pothead: Yeah right. (Knocks dealer to the floor) ❋ Twibbix (2004)

[MY NIGGA] [THAT SHIT] [DENSE] ❋ Butthole1961 (2011)

C [Au].! [milk] comes from [COWS] not the supermakets!! stop being dense! ❋ Teee Heee (2008)

[Caty]: So has he [catched] on that you like him yet?
Helen: Sigh…no..[Peter’s] so dense.. ❋ Nomnomnomcake:D (2011)

Oh my god, your so [dense]. I bet even if he [kissed] you you would [be like],»He hates me?» ❋ SortOfSmart101 (2016)

I cant believe she [cheated on] him and didn’t tell him for month, she thought everything would be okay, shes [sooo] [dense]. ❋ *Taylor_Kimi* (2006)

плотный, густой, дремучий, компактный, тупой, частый, непрозрачный, глупый

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Словосочетания

dense forest — густой лес  
dense population — высокая плотность населения  
dense fog — густой туман  
dense photographic negative — плотный негатив  
dense poverty — крайняя степень нищеты  
dense / heavy / thick fog — густой туман  
dense / thick forest — густой лес  
dense jungle — заросли джунглей, густые джунгли  
dense mass (of smoke) — плотная завеса (дыма)  
reasonably dense packing — достаточно плотная укладка  

Примеры с переводом

Примеры, ожидающие перевода

Возможные однокоренные слова

densely  — плотно, густо, компактно, скученно
density  — плотность, густота, удельный вес, скученность, компактность, тупость, глупость

Формы слова

adjective
срав. степ. (comparative): denser
прев. степ. (superlative): densest

Dense has two formal meanings, and one more that is more informal. When you describe things as dense, you will use the formal meanings of the adjective. If you want to describe a person as dense, you are getting to the informal use of the word.

The Meanings of Dense

1. Closely compacted, with many particles or materials in a small space.

2. A text, lecture, or other material with information that has a lot of information that the reader or listener needs to understand.

3. (Informal) A person that is not very smart, and takes a while to realize things that should be common sense.

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1. Definition: Volume and Mass

For the most part, dense is used as the first definition. This is especially true with science, when you talk about the relationship between the volume of something (how big it is) and its mass (how heavy it is).

A good example of demonstrating something very dense and something that is not, is to compare two objects of roughly the same size. If you have a paperweight, you know that it will be quite heavy for its size.

That means it is dense. If you look at the box that the paperweight came in, you will hold something that is not dense at all – mainly because it is full of air.

2. Definition: Information

This is a similar concept if you are dealing with an informational thing. Whether it is a text, lecture, movie, or something else, it can hold a lot of knowledge.

If you find yourself struggling to keep up, it is likely that you are reading a very dense book, for example.

You can also determine whether something is dense by seeing how many pages of notes it generates while you read, listen, or watch it; if you are able to summarize every detail into just one page, it might not be very dense.

However, if you read 5 pages and end up with 3 pages of notes, it is dense.

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3. Definition: Person

Saying that a person is dense is usually not a nice thing. It generally means that they are slow to understand something and lack common sense.

If you have been teaching a group of 10 children, for example, and 9 of them understand something you teach them, the tenth one might be a bit dense if no one can explain the concept in a way that can get them to understand.

Example Sentences

• Objects that float are less dense than water.
• Since helium is less dense than air, helium balloons will fly in the sky.
• The reading for class this week was so dense; I had to spend 5 hours reading everything!
• Paul wants to read more nonfiction books but they are always so dense.
• I can’t believe that Jim has not realized Amy’s crush on him; he is so dense!
• Polly was afraid that her son was dense but her worries turned out to be unfounded.

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What does the word dense mean?

According to Collins English Dictionary and the American Heritage Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, the word dense is an adjective that means thick or opaque. In a slang sense, it means of low intellect. Many things can be dense: dense fog, leaves in a dense forest, in mathematics or general physics to refer to the denseness of matter, dense vegetation, dense smoke, a sense optical glass that lets through little light, dense traffic, a dense philosophical essay, dense articles on classical learning, a dense movie, a dense mattress, Jupiter the dense third planet, dense team reports, nutrient-dense foods like legumes, lean proteins, healthy oils and whole grains, a dense part of the city, dense impenetrable gloom, dense thick woods, a dense aunt, dense slow students, dense dumb officials, a esense population of immigrants, dense fur, a high density or high relative density in a quantity of matter that affects its specific gravity, a dense clous of smoke, dense dark areas with a good contrast for photography, a dense heavy metal with compactness of matter, a dense glass with a great physical weight in a given area, a dense number of items at a register, density of the population, the density of a gas in a unit of volume, dense sets and more.

Many different languages also contain words that mean dense. You may notice that many of these translations of dense look and sound similar to one another. These are called cognates, which are words of different languages that look and sound alike while also retaining a similar meaning. These are often formed when two words or languages have the same root or language of origin. This list of translations of the word dense is provided by Word Sense but you could also find them in a Spanish dictionary unabridged 8th edition, German dictionary 7th edition, Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary Unabridged 12th Edition, or Italian dictionary 1st edition.

•  Lower Sorbian: gusty‎
•  Pashto: ټينګ‎ (ṭing)
•  Turkish: yoğun‎
•  Finnish: tiheä‎
•  Persian: چگال‎ (čegâl)
•  Polish: gęsty‎ (masc.)
•  Spanish: denso‎ (masc.)
•  Japanese: 濃い‎ (こい, koi), 密‎ (mitsu)
•  Danish: kompakt‎
•  German: dicht‎
•  Latvian: blīvs‎
•  Maori: pururua‎ (of vegetation)
•  Macedonian: густ‎
•  Irish: dlúth‎
•  Portuguese: denso‎
•  Vietnamese: đặc‎
•  Russian: пло́тный‎, густо́й‎ (viscous)
•  Armenian: խիտ‎
•  Mandarin: 密‎ (mì), 稠密‎ (chóumì), 濃‎, 浓‎ (nóng)
•  Bulgarian: гъст‎ (gǎst)
•  Catalan: dens‎
•  Slovene: góst‎ (masc.) ‎

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بِكَثافَه на гъсто densamente hustě dicht tæt πυκνά densamente tihedalt tankis blīvums ketumpatan dichtheid egenvekt þunnur stupido 頭の鈍い stulbs bodoh stompzinnig dum estúpido kõva peaga dense עָבוֹת घना bujan gust sűrű lebat þéttur együgyű bodoh tregur blīvums kepadatan dichtheid tetthet tebal dicht tett тъп estúpido hloupý dum αργόστροφος corto πυκνότητα densidad tihedus تراکم tyk πυκνός espeso nechápavý schwer bukas aprobežots begriff tykhovedet tirštas biezs tihedus چگالی tankumas biezums trög โง่ ahmak ความหนาแน่น yoğunluk 密集度 густота tonto gedrängt digtheid كَثافَه гъстота densidade hustota die dichte heavy mahogany furniture kompakt หนาแน่น yoğun อย่างหนาแน่น yoğun olarak 密集地 густо samþjappaður fitto kalın kafalı 愚鈍的 дурний كَثيف гъст denso hustý dicht tæt انبوهی tiheys densité צפיפות घनत्व zbijenost sűrűség kepadatan þéttleiki densità blīvi sangat padat dicht tett gęsto greek dasýs غلظت tiheys densité צפיפות घनत्व gustoća stompsinnig zbijeno sűrűn rapat mjög þétt densamente びっしりと 촘촘히 tankiai biezi احمق denso des густой hustý gost gust tät kompakthet gęstość جنگلی densidade densitate плотность hustota gostota gustina täthet digtheid كَثافَه плътност densidade hustota die dichte vægtfylde πυκνότητα densidad phys tett tępy احمق estúpido tâmpit тупой nechápavý omejen glup dum نږدى densamente compact плотно husto gosto gusto tätt torpe ottuso tupoglav ograničen 밀집한 tetthet gęstość غلضت densidade densitate плотность hustota gostota gustina densitet blīvs tykk غليظ beschränkt superl begriffsstutzig kepekatan eðlismassi densità 密度

What are synonyms and antonyms of dense?

There are many different words and phrases that a person can choose to use in place of the word dense. These are called synonyms, which are defined as words and phrases with the same definition as another word or phrase. Learning synonyms is a great way to expand your English vocabulary and avoid repeating yourself. This list of synonyms of dense is from Power Thesaurus.

•  mindless
•  slow
•  tight
•  thick
•  dim-witted
•  uncomprehending
•  populous
•  imperceptive
•  substantial
•  half-witted
•  congested
•  half-assed
•  lush
•  solid
•  lumpish
•  impermeable
•  massed
•  thicker
•  blockheaded
•  witless
•  luxuriant
•  chowderheaded
•  soupy
•  moronic
•  lunkheaded
•  slow-witted
•  serried
•  simpleminded
•  heavy
•  lamebrained
•  birdbrained
•  crammed
•  rigid
•  unperceptive
•  jungly
•  slow on the uptake
•  murky
•  profuse
•  dull-witted
•  simple
•  obtuse
•  blockish
•  stupid
•  unyielding
•  idiotic
•  close-packed
•  ignorant
•  insensitive
•  pea-brained
•  impenetrable
•  stiff
•  dimwitted
•  firm
•  unintelligent
•  vacuous
•  condensed
•  stolid
•  opaque
•  bovine
•  brainless
•  close
•  concentrated
•  compact
•  packed
•  dim
•  abundant
•  compressed
•  piled
•  imbecilic
•  tightly packed
•  bushy
•  dozy
•  foolish
•  brain-dead
•  muttonheaded
•  impassable
•  crowded
•  closer
•  dumb
•  wooden-headed
•  fatheaded
•  cretinous
•  compacted
•  doltish
•  dull
•  rank
•  empty-headed
•  thickheaded
•  daft
•  overgrown
•  exuberant
•  blind
•  thick-witted
•  dopey
•  concrete
•  fatuous
•  vapid
•  hard
•  boneheaded
•  thickset

There are also many different words that have the opposite meaning as the word dense. These opposite words are called antonyms, which are another quick and easy way to expand your English language vocabulary. This list of antonyms is also provided by Power Thesaurus. 

•  brilliant
•  open
•  thin
•  scattered
•  akamai
•  artful
•  astute
•  fast
•  wise
•  penetrable
•  perceptive
•  insightful
•  all skin and bones
•  canny
•  intelligent
•  light
•  brainy
•  smart
•  sparse
•  active
•  adroit
•  agile enough
•  academic
•  well-versed
•  airy
•  shrewd
•  acute
•  loose
•  apt
•  clever
•  advanced
•  amusing
•  nimble
•  quick
•  alive
•  sagacious
•  absorbing
•  liquid
•  almost empty
•  facile
•  bright
•  animated
•  alert
•  agile
•  well educated
•  on the ball
•  quick-witted
•  glittering
•  transparent
•  sharp

Overall, the word dense (adj.) means thick or opaque. It is also a slang term for lacking intelligence.

Sources:

1. Dense definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary 
2. dense: meaning, origin, translation | Word Sense 
3. Dense synonyms – 1 702 Words and Phrases for Dense | Power Thesaurus 
4. Dense antonyms – 455 Opposites of Dense | Power Thesaurus