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dense

• (s) permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
  • dense smoke
  • heavy fog
  • impenetrable gloom
  impenetrable, heavy,
• (s) hard to pass through because of dense growth
  • dense vegetation
  • thick woods
  thick,
• (s) having high relative density or specific gravity
  • dense as lead
• (s) 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
  dumb, slow, obtuse, dim, dull,

Synonyms

impenetrable heavy thick dumb slow obtuse dim dull

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