dɛns dɪm

dʌl ˈhɛ.vi ɪmˈpɛnətɹəbəl əbˈtjuːs əbˈt(j)us sləʊ sloʊ θɘk slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity so dense he never understands anything I say to him never met anyone quite so dim although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick dumb officials make some really dumb decisions he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse worked with the slow students having component parts closely crowded together a compact shopping center a dense population thick crowds a thick forest thick hair having high relative density or specific gravity dense as lead hard to pass through because of dense growth dense vegetation thick woods permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter dense smoke heavy fog impenetrable gloom