French Conversation · Level 8
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French word
dense
Pronunciation
IPA/dɑ̃s/
Meaning
- adjectivedense
Example
La ville est dense.
The city is dense.
More examples
Le trafic est dense ce matin.
Traffic is heavy this morning.
Core concept
Particles packed tightly together, leaving almost no gaps inside a material.
Common phrases
trafic dense
heavy traffic
brouillard dense
thick fog
population dense
dense population
Similar words
bondé: Filled with very large numbers of people or things in a place or vehicle.
peuplé: Containing many people or living things in a particular area.
surpeuplé: Containing too many residents, making the area overcrowded.
encombré: Blocked or difficult to move through because of too many people or things.
Definition in French
Qui a peu d'espace entre ses éléments ; serré ou compact.
Word origin
The French adjective dense developed from Latin densus through medieval French and retained the idea of thickness or close packing.
Usage tips
- Dense has the same written form for masculine and feminine singular nouns, as in un tissu dense and une forêt dense; the plural is denses.
Other meanings
- thickadjective
Opposites
- clairsemésparseadjective
- éparsscatteredadjective
Related words
- densitédensitynoun
- densémentdenselyadverb