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dense
adjective as in compressed, thick
adjective as in slow, stupid
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He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.
The narrowest piece of land was at Panama, but it was covered in dense, mountainous jungle.
For those in the dense forests, beaches, and towns of West Africa, it is a real threat.
These days they are occasional meteorological irruptions, white river mists, not dense and toxic industrial pea-soupers.
In the dense atmosphere of tobacco and conspiracy, one hot topic has been the death penalty.
No trail was so obtuse, no thicket so dense that members of that regiment would not track them to their lair.
The road on which the Federals were marching was narrow and on each side lined with dense underbrush.
The advance had to be carefully made, for the country was rough, wooded, and covered with a dense undergrowth of bushes.
Not having completed the loading of his gun, Tom hastily rode behind a dense bush, and concealed himself as well as he could.
Tom jumped behind a bush, and as they passed tried to fire, but the foliage was so dense that he failed to get a good aim.
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On this page you'll find 122 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dense, such as: heavy, impenetrable, opaque, solid, close, and compact.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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