Meaning

7 senses
  1. Having relatively high density.

    dicht

    густо́йgustój, пло́тныйplótnyj

    густи́йhustýj, щі́льнийščílʹnyj

    having high relative density or specific gravity

  2. Compact; crowded together.

    dicht

    пло́тныйplótnyj, компа́ктныйkompáktnyj

    having component parts closely crowded together

  3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.

    dicht

    густо́йgustój

  4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

    dicht

    непрозра́чныйneprozráčnyj

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

  5. Obscure or difficult to understand.

    dicht

  6. (not comparable)Such that its closure in T is T.

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

    тупо́йtupój, глу́пыйglúpyj

Examples

129 sentences
  1. Tom walked through the dense fog.

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  2. Tom can't believe how dense Mary is.

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  3. There's a dense fog advisory in effect.

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  4. Because of the dense fog, nobody could be seen.

    deWegen des dichten Nebels war kein Mensch zu sehen.

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  5. Because of the dense fog, nothing could be seen.

    ruИз-за густого тумана ничего не было видно.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
having relatively high density:
Русский
By meaning 4
having relatively high density:
compact; crowded together:
opaque; allowing little light to pass through:
slow to comprehend; of low intelligence:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
math: being a well-approximating subset:

Origin

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

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

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Forms

denser, densest
Comparativedenser Lesson
Superlativedensest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

176 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity:dimdulldumbobtuseslow
  • hard to pass through because of dense growth:thick
  • permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter:heavyimpenetrable
  • having component parts closely crowded together:thick

Antonyms

78 antonyms

Word family

20 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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