denser
SayDENS-erUS/ˈdɛnsɚ//ˈdɛnsə/
- 1Comparative of dense.
Saltwater is denser than fresh water, which is why people float more easily in the ocean.
The forest became denser the further we hiked from the marked trail.
Note
The regular -er comparative, built the way one-syllable adjectives usually are: the final e of dense absorbs the suffix, giving denser rather than more dense. It carries every gradable meaning of the base: heavier for its volume, more crowded, thicker, more opaque, harder to follow. The mathematician's dense set is the exception. That property is all or nothing, so a set is never denser than another.
denser is a form of dense
dense, adjective: Compact and tightly crowded together into a small space. Full entry
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- dense → denser: add -r
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