What part of speech is dense?

Dense can be categorized as an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. dense is an adjective.

Inflections

Adjective

Adjective to adverb

  • adjective: dense
  • adverb: densely 

What does dense mean?

Definitions

Adjective

dense - 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"
dense - hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
dense - having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
dense - permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"

Examples of dense

#   Sentence  
1. adj. So dense he never understands anything I say to him.
2. adj. Dense vegetation.
3. adj. Dense as lead.
4. adj. Dense smoke.
5. adj. . . . and uneasy in its corporate expression, was overtopped by the big face of Don Juste Lopez, soft and white, with prominent eyelids and wreathed in impenetrable solemnity as if in a dense cloud.>>
6. adj. Mr Smith lost his way in the dense fog.
7. adj. There is a dense growth of vines in this forest.
8. adj. There is a dense population of young people around here.
9. adj. The man was hiding in a dense forest.
10. adj. The dense fog made the building invisible.
11. adj. Dense bushes concealed him.
12. adj. Our plane couldn't land on account of the dense fog.
13. adj. The freight train was held up about half an hour because of a dense fog.
14. adj. Not a soul was to be seen because of a dense fog.
15. adj. The mist was so dense that I could not see even an inch ahead.
Sentence  
adj.
So dense he never understands anything I say to him.
Dense vegetation.
Dense as lead.
Dense smoke.
. . . and uneasy in its corporate expression, was overtopped by the big face of Don Juste Lopez, soft and white, with prominent eyelids and wreathed in impenetrable solemnity as if in a dense cloud.>>
Mr Smith lost his way in the dense fog.
There is a dense growth of vines in this forest.
There is a dense population of young people around here.
The man was hiding in a dense forest.
The dense fog made the building invisible.
Dense bushes concealed him.
Our plane couldn't land on account of the dense fog.
The freight train was held up about half an hour because of a dense fog.
Not a soul was to be seen because of a dense fog.
The mist was so dense that I could not see even an inch ahead.

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