dense
/dɛns/
adjective
- Having parts that are close together; thick or compact.
- The city's dense population makes public transportation essential.
- She baked a dense, heavy loaf of whole-wheat bread.
- The forest was so dense that sunlight barely reached the ground.
- Difficult to understand because of complexity or a lot of information.
- The lecture was dense, covering decades of research in one hour.
- His writing is dense with references to philosophy and history.
- The textbook was too dense for beginners to follow.
- Slow to understand; stupid or unintelligent (informal).
- I explained it three times, but he's still being dense about it.
- She felt dense for not catching the joke earlier.
- Don't be so dense — the answer is obvious.