densely

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈdɛnsliː/

📖 Definitions

  1. adverb
    In a dense manner; closely compacted or crowded together; with many things or people in a small area.; In a way that is difficult to understand; obscurely or opaquely.; In a thick, heavy, or impenetrable manner, often referring to physical substances or vegetation.

🔗 Details

Word forms

Comparative: more densely Superlative: most densely

Collocations

densely populateddensely packeddensely woodeddensely writtendensely layereddensely forested

Derivatives

densedensitydensenessdensifydensification

Synonyms

thicklycompactlycloselytightlyconcentratedly

Antonyms

sparselythinlyloosely

Commonly confused

intensely
EN: 'Intensely' refers to degree or strength of feeling/quality; 'densely' refers to how closely packed or concentrated things are physically or structurally.
thickly
EN: 'Thickly' often describes a layer or coating applied with depth; 'densely' emphasizes the number of items per unit area or compactness.

Spelling tips

EN: Remember that 'densely' retains the 'e' from 'dense' before adding '-ly' (dense + ly = densely), unlike some adjectives that drop the 'e' (e.g., 'true' → 'truly').

💬 Examples

  1. The city is densely populated, with thousands of people living in each square kilometer.

  2. The philosopher wrote so densely that even his students struggled to follow his arguments.

  3. The forest was densely wooded, making it nearly impossible to see through the trees.