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dense

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"Closely packed"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ˈdɛns/Part of speech adjectiveSorted deensStarts with DEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity

Word origin

From Middle French dense, from Latin dēnsus, from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”) (whence also Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús)).

Used in a sentence

  • There are times when systems like GPT-4 seem to mimic human reasoning, but there are also times when they seem terribly dense. “These behaviors are not always consistent,” Ece Kamar, a Microsoft researcher, said.

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