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5-letter words (5 found)

DEENS,DENES,DENSE,NEEDS,SNEED,

4-letter words (15 found)

DEEN,DEES,DENE,DENS,ENDS,ENES,ESNE,NEDS,NEED,SEED,SEEN,SEND,SENE,SNED,SNEE,

3-letter words (12 found)

DEE,DEN,EDS,EEN,END,ENE,ENS,NED,NEE,SED,SEE,SEN,

2-letter words (6 found)

DE,ED,EE,EN,ES,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 39 words from dense according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of dense

dense ednse dnese ndese endse nedse desne edsne dsene sdene esdne sedne dnsee ndsee dsnee sdnee nsdee sndee ensde nesde esnde sende nsede snede denes ednes dnees ndees endes nedes deens edens deens edens eedns eedns dnees ndees denes ednes nedes endes eneds needs eends eends needs eneds desen edsen dseen sdeen esden seden deesn edesn deesn edesn eedsn eedsn dseen sdeen desen edsen seden esden esedn seedn eesdn eesdn seedn esedn dnsee ndsee dsnee sdnee nsdee sndee dnese ndese dense ednse nedse endse dsene sdene desne edsne sedne esdne nsede snede nesde ensde sende esnde ensed nesed esned sened nseed sneed enesd neesd eensd eensd neesd enesd esend seend eesnd eesnd seend esend nseed sneed nesed ensed sened esned

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Definitions and meaning of dense

dense

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA(key): /dɛns/
  • Rhymes: -ɛns

Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

  1. Having relatively high density.
    Synonym: solid
  2. Compact; crowded together.
    Synonyms: compact, crowded, packed; see also Thesaurus:compact
    Antonyms: diffuse; see also Thesaurus:diffuse
  3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
    Synonyms: thick, solid
    Antonym: thin
  4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
    Synonyms: cloudy, opaque; see also Thesaurus:opaque
    Antonyms: clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent; see also Thesaurus:transparent, Thesaurus:translucent
  5. Obscure, or difficult to understand.
    Synonyms: abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough; see also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
    Antonyms: clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable; see also Thesaurus:comprehensible
  6. (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See the Wikipedia article on dense sets for a mathematical definition.
    Antonym: meager
  7. Slow to comprehend; of low intelligence. (of a person)
    Synonyms: dumb, slow, stupid, thick; see also Thesaurus:stupid
    Antonyms: bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart; see also Thesaurus:intelligent

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "crowded together"): diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied (scientific, to describe gases)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

dense (plural denses)

  1. A thicket.

Anagrams

  • Denes, Edens, Sneed, denes, edens, needs, sende, sneed

Esperanto

Etymology

From densa +‎ -e.

Adverb

dense

  1. densely

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēnsus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɑ̃s/

Adjective

dense (plural denses)

  1. dense

Related terms

  • condenser
  • densité

Further reading

  • “dense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Adjective

dense f pl

  1. feminine plural of denso

Latin

Etymology

From dēnsus (dense, close, frequent) +‎ (adverbial suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈden.seː/, [ˈd̪ẽːs̠eː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈden.se/, [ˈd̪ɛnse]

Adverb

dēnsē (comparative dēnsius, superlative dēnsissimē)

  1. closely, in rapid succession

Related terms

References

  • dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dense”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • dense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Spanish

Verb

dense

  1. third-person plural imperative of dar combined with se

Source: wiktionary.org