densely

In crowded fashion

Densely means in a tightly packed or concentrated manner.

A densely populated city has many people per square mile.

A densely wooded forest has trees growing close together.

The word also describes thickness of texture or complexity: densely written prose is packed with ideas and difficult to penetrate.

crowded

packed

Filled to capacity

crammed · jammed · cramped · clustered · thronged · overcrowded · compressed · compact · sardined · close-packed

textured

thick

Having great depth

solid · rich · opaque · viscous · concentrated · layered · complex · intricate · woven · knitted

vegetated

thicket

Dense shrub cluster

canopy · underbrush · brushwood · tangle · bramble · briar · shrubbery · vegetation · woodland · rainforest

written

complex

Having many interconnected parts

layered · nuanced · scholarly · academic · technical · abstruse · recondite · erudite · footnoted · annotated

Opposites
spatial concentration

denselysparsely

In a thin manner

thinly · loosely · diffusely · widely · spread out

thickness/opacity

denselythinly

In sparse layers

sparsely · lightly · transparently · wispy · airily

mental sharpness (informal/ironic)

denselyalertly

With keen awareness

sharply · brightly · keenly · astutely · cleverly

Phrases
Family

dense, condense, condensed, condenses, condenser, uncondensed

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