Antonyms for dense
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1. denseadjective

   Having relatively high density.

   Synonyms:
   solid

2. denseadjective

   Compact; crowded together.

   Antonyms:
   sparse, rarefied, few and far between, scattered, diffuse

   Synonyms:
   crowded, packed, compact

3. denseadjective

   Thick; difficult to penetrate.

   Antonyms:
   thin

   Synonyms:
   solid, thick

4. denseadjective

   Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Antonyms:
   diaphanous, translucent, see-through, transparent, clear

   Synonyms:
   cloudy, opaque

5. denseadjective

   Obscure, or difficult to understand.

   Antonyms:
   comprehensible, straightforward, simple, understandable, easy, clear

   Synonyms:
   abstruse, incomprehensible, hard, obscure, difficult, tough

6. denseadjective

   Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

   Antonyms:
   quick, canny, smart, bright, quick-witted, intelligent

   Synonyms:
   slow, stupid, dumb, thick

7. denseadjective

   Antonyms:
   meager

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dense

   That is obscure which the eye or the mind can not clearly discern or see through, whether because of its own want of transparency, its depth or intricacy, or because of mere defect of light. That which is complicated is likely to be obscure, but that may be obscure which is not at all complicated and scarcely complex, as a muddy pool. In that which is abstruse (Latin abs, from, and trudo, push) as if removed from the usual course of thought or out of the way of apprehension or discovery, the thought is remote, hidden; in that which is obscure there may be nothing to hide; it is hard to see to the bottom of the profound, because of its depth, but the most shallow turbidness is obscure. Compare COMPLEX; DARK; DIFFICULT; MYSTERIOUS.

   See synonyms for CLEAR.

   Synonyms:
   abstruse, ambiguous, cloudy, complex, complicated, dark, darksome, deep, difficult, dim, doubtful, dusky, enigmatical, hidden, incomprehensible, indistinct, intricate, involved, muddy, mysterious, obscure, profound, turbid, unintelligible

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. dense

   Antonyms:
   quick, clever, intelligent, rare, rarefied, uncompacted, sparse

   Synonyms:
   slow, thick, stupid, stolid, solid, stout, compact, consolidated, condensed, close, thickset

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. dense, heavy, impenetrableadjective

   permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter

   "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

   Antonyms:
   penetrable, smart, light, thin

   Synonyms:
   laboured, sullen, laborious, heavy, dull, overweight, toilsome, slow, intemperate, sound, dumb, wakeless, grueling, with child(p), threatening, grave, profound, lowering, cloggy, heavy(a), large(p), clayey, enceinte, grievous, fleshy, weighed down, hard, weighty, impenetrable, gruelling, expectant, lumbering, ponderous, backbreaking, sonorous, great(p), arduous, operose, dim, heavy(p), big(a), labored, punishing, thick, gravid, big(p), obtuse, leaden

2. dense, thickadjective

   hard to pass through because of dense growth

   "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"

   Antonyms:
   thin, penetrable, smart, light

   Synonyms:
   duncical, duncish, dull, dim, thickheaded, thick(p), loggerheaded, impenetrable, chummy, thick-skulled, thickset, dumb, deep, slow, blockheaded, heavy, compact, stocky, boneheaded, wooden-headed, heavyset, obtuse, buddy-buddy, fatheaded, thick, slurred

3. denseadjective

   having high relative density or specific gravity

   "dense as lead"

   Antonyms:
   penetrable, light, smart, thin

   Synonyms:
   heavy, dull, obtuse, impenetrable, dim, thick, dumb, slow

4. dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slowadjective

   slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

   "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"

   Antonyms:
   thin, smart, light, penetrable

   Synonyms:
   vague, ho-hum, muted, sluggish, subdued, deadening, faint, mute, slow, thudding, boring, dumb, irksome, black, silent, wispy, heavy, dim, purblind, muffled, tedious, impenetrable, dull, dimmed, speechless, shadowy, tiresome, softened, bleak, thick, wearisome, obtuse, leaden

How to use dense in a sentence?

1. Caitlin Flanagan:

   We're looking at people with complicated health histories a lot of the time, we're looking at obesity as an issue but no one wants to say it because it's body positivity. And we're looking at poverty. That's what we need to be focused on, people who live really close together. But there's a lot of people within different poor communities so don't want to take it. We just have to take our chances, be thoughtful and careful and go back out there and make sure that people who live in dense housing have complete access to the vaccine. And if they don't want to take it ….

2. Catherine Bradshaw:

   Rain ultimately flows back to sea, and because it is freshwater rather than saltwater, it is less dense than the seawater it is draining into, this means it can form a cap at the surface rather than sinking and circulating.

3. Matthias Egger:

   If you’re out there, what you see is just pristine blue ocean, you can think of it like the night sky. If you look up at night, you see all those white dots, that’s essentially what you see in the garbage patch. It’s not that dense, but there are a lot of them … out there, you start seeing more and more plastic the longer you look.

4. Ruy Teixeira:

   The fact is that a lot of these white non-college voters who are living in dense areas are living in areas that are working, where economic mobility is feasible, and that takes the edge off of their cultural conservatism.

5. Melissa Rifkin:

   As shown in this study, fast casual foods are more calorically dense, the reason being is they are often larger in size than fast food portion sizes, while being aware of calories and sodium can be helpful, there is a dark side to an over-emphasis on numbers.

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