Antonyms for denser

Grammar : Adj

Spell : dens

Phonetic Transcription : dɛns

Definition of denser

Origin : early 15c., from Middle French dense and directly from Latin densus "thick, crowded; cloudy," perhaps from PIE root *dens- "dense, thick" (cf. Greek dasus "hairy, shaggy"). Sense of "stupid" is first recorded 1822.

adj compressed, thick
adj slow, stupid

Example sentences :

What would crush a swift-thinking man is upborne by the denser tide.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

Along the denser shadows the three crept to a position in the rear of the natives.
Extract from : « The Monster Men » by Edgar Rice Burroughs

A shoot of gold which is darker and denser than the rest is called adamant.
Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato

Neptune is denser than Saturn, which, by the hypothesis, it ought not to be.
Extract from : « Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I » by Herbert Spencer

Denser and denser grew the gloom, and now there was a roaring as of a great wind.
Extract from : « The Trail of '98 » by Robert W. Service

The blacker and denser the precipitate the better is the solution.
Extract from : « On Laboratory Arts » by Richard Threlfall

The woods will seem to have been growing deeper and denser every mile of the way.
Extract from : « Old Mackinaw » by W. P. Strickland.

It was a faint effort to be gay, and it only showed his gloom the denser.
Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Then finally they entered the Island, and drove toward the denser center.
Extract from : « Invaders from the Infinite » by John Wood Campbell

Thus the denser and larger the food, the longer it will take to heat.
Extract from : « The Community Cook Book » by Anonymous

Synonyms for denser

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