Synonyms for denser
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : dens |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɛns |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for denser
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