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Dense vs Dimwitted - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between dense and dimwitted

is that dense is having relatively high density while dimwitted is an alternative spelling of dim-witted.

dense

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Having relatively high density.
  • Compact; crowded together.
  • Thick; difficult to penetrate.
  • *, chapter=13
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
  • Opaque; allowing little light to pass through.
  • Obscure, or difficult to understand.
  • (mathematics, topology) Being a subset of a topological space that approximates the space well. See Wikipedia article on (dense set)s for mathematical definition.
  • Of a person, slow to comprehend; of low intelligence.

    • Synonyms

    * (having relatively high density) solid * (crowded together) compact, crowded, packed * (difficult to penetrate) thick, solid * (allowing little light to pass through) cloudy, opaque * (difficult to understand) abstruse, difficult, hard, incomprehensible, obscure, tough * (slow to comprehend) dumb, slow, stupid, thick

    Antonyms

    * (having relatively high density) * (crowded together) diffuse, few and far between (of things as opposed to one thing), scattered, sparse, rarefied * (difficult to penetrate) thin * (allowing little light to pass through) clear, diaphanous, see-through, translucent, transparent * (difficult to understand) clear, comprehensible, easy, simple, straightforward, understandable * (in mathematics) meager * (slow to comprehend) bright, canny, intelligent, quick, quick-witted, smart

    Anagrams

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    dimwitted

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-12-19 , year= , first= , last= , author=Terry Gardner , authorlink= , title=The Gift of Foreign-language Learning , site=The Chicago Tribune citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2013-04-17 , passage=My memories of high school and college French are mostly negative because I usually felt dimwitted anytime I tried to speak. }}