dense
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6.8
- adjective
- /dɛns/
- Offensive
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tonto
- Samantha, this physics book is really dense.
My my Dick is See, I'm I'm a dense person.
- My my Dick is See, I'm I'm a dense person.
- Oh, do you know what Ed and HS are so dense.
- OK, so that's why you can be dense yet soft.
- They do it for your attention, you dense fucking predator.
- There's only so much everything up that even really dense people can take before they work out.
Examples
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It's not that Lawrence is dense or insensitive, but he's from another mindset.
Fiction book (2000) -
But apparently he was quite dense when it came to the important things in life.
Fiction book (1995) -
Are you a little dense?
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I must be very dense.
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I'm sorry if we appear a little dense - perhaps you could explain.
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The thought that I had married a dense human being frightened me.
Academic text (2002) -
I know you think I'm so dense.
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It's hard to understand how Dawkins could be so dense about that.
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Are we really so dense and insensitive that we have missed the obvious?
Academic text (2007) -
He can be quite dense when it comes to picking up social cues, often missing obvious hints.
Synonyms
945
3.2
Not able to understand or learn things quickly
297
4.4
Not quick to learn or understand things
41
8.2
Not very smart and slow to understand
28
6.5
Slow to understand and not quick to learn
19
2.8
Slow to notice or react to things
14
7.4
Slow to understand what other people mean
4
7.9
Slow to understand simple ideas or instructions
1
8.1
Not quick to understand or learn new things
A little slow to understand things
Slow to understand things and often acting foolishly
Antonyms
Compounds
A tall plant with many close purple flower spikes used in flower arrangements
How Intelligent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dense comes from the Latin densus, which means 'thick', and a helpful way to remember the slang meaning is to think of a 'thick' mind that is hard to get ideas through. So calling someone dense means they seem slow to understand.