dense
/ˈdɛns/ adjective B2- Having relatively high density.
- Compact; crowded together.
- Thick; difficult to penetrate.
- Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
- Obscure or difficult to understand.
- Such that its closure in T is T.
- Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
Comparative denser · Superlative densest
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At the other end, silent, scarcely visible, and like a shadow, was a sentinel, who was walking up and down before a grotto, which was only distinguishable because in that spot the darkness seemed more dense than elsewhere.
Both road and stream wound up through a valley dense with scrub oak and fir.
I have said that over the great Grimpen Mire there hung a dense, white fog.
As we watched it the fog-wreaths came crawling round both corners of the house and rolled slowly into one dense bank on which the upper floor and the roof floated like a strange ship upon a shadowy sea.
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