densest

Adjective

dense (comparative denser, superlative densest)

1. Having relatively high density.

   Synonyms:

   solid

2. Compact; crowded together.
   • The regions of densest population are the tributaries and banks of the Huai above Pang-pu and the diked areas along the right bank of the Yangtze.[…]
     There are four large towns—Ho-fei, the capital; Huai-nan; Pang-pu; and Wu-hu.1998, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia: Knowledge in Depth, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 172, 173

   Synonyms:

   compact, crowded, packed, close, solid, thick, tight

   Antonyms:

   diffuse, dispersed, incompact, loose, noncompact, scattered, spaced out, sparse, spread out, thin

3. Thick; difficult to penetrate.
   • ... mantling the slopes are other still denser forests, where the Pacara (Enterolobium timbavica), Lapacho (Tecoma stans), Quina-Quina (Myroxilon peruanum), urunday (allied to the Lapacho) Quefioa (Rosacea Polylepis racemosa), Cascaron ...1881, Ernest William White, Cameos from the Silver-land: Or, The Experiences of a Young Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, London: J. Van Voorst, page 44

   Synonyms:

   thick, solid

   Antonyms:

   thin

4. Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.

   Synonyms:

   cloudy, opaque, adiaphanous, nontransparent, opacous, opacular, thick

   Antonyms:

   clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent, clear as crystal, crystalline, glassy, hyaline, hyaloid

5. Obscure or difficult to understand.
   • And if you're experiencing a weird sensation after that clip that you can't quite place, it's because it was nice! It was happy kids talking about how they're able to be themselves, and you don't usually get nice things on this show, which at this point is honestly mainly dense statistics and facts...2025 April 6, 31:34 from the start, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 12, episode 7, spoken by John Oliver, published 7 April 2025, retrieved 14 Apr 2025

   Synonyms:

   abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough, Chinese, enigmatic, fathomless, bottomless

   Antonyms:

   clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable, apprehensible, limpid, explainable, explicable

6. (not comparable) Such that its closure in T is T.

   Antonyms:

   meager

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