DENSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does densely mean? 

• DENSELY (adverb)
  The adverb DENSELY has 2 senses:

1. in a stupid manner

2. in a concentrated manner

  Familiarity information: DENSELY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENSELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a stupid manner

Synonyms:

densely; dumbly; obtusely

Context example:

he had so rapaciously desired and so obtusely expected to find her alone

Pertainym:

dense (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a concentrated manner

Synonyms:

densely; thickly

Context example:

a thickly populated area

 Context examples 

The blue color is caused by large, densely packed melanocytes deep in the dermis of the nevus.

(Blue Nevus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

But, as the night advanced, the clouds closing in and densely over-spreading the whole sky, then very dark, it came on to blow, harder and harder.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The distal portion of the photoreceptor cells made up of densely packed disks containing opsin proteins that absorb light.

(Outer Segment of the Photoreceptor Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

I was prompt with my answer, however, for I saw where my advantage lay and that with a fellow so densely stupid I could easily conceal my suspicions to the end.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Neutrophils are born in bone marrow and carry chemicals in hundreds of densely filled packets called granules, which look like dark spots under a microscope.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

A large and densely populated urban area; a city specified in an address.

(City, NCI Thesaurus)

And bigger than such things was life, of which they were densely, hopelessly ignorant.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The algorithm was derived in analogy to the way the densely interconnected, parallel structure of the brain processes information.

(Neural Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Poor quality, densely populated housing and inadequate sanitation systems may foster sandfly breeding sites and increase their access to humans.

(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)

Densely calcified fluid, most often found radiographically in association with an obstruction.

(Milk of Calcium, NCI Thesaurus)