densest
SayDENS-ist/ˈdɛnsɪst/
- 1Superlative of dense.
Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element on Earth.
The hikers pushed through the densest undergrowth before reaching the clearing.
Note
The top of a regular scale: dense drops its final e and takes -er and -est, giving denser and then this form. It reaches every everyday meaning of dense: the most crowded forest, the thickest fog, the most opaque glass, the hardest prose to follow. The exception is the mathematician's dense set, whose closure fills the whole space. A set either is dense or is not, so nothing is densest in that sense.
densest is a form of dense
dense, adjective: Compact and tightly crowded together into a small space. Full entry
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- dense → densest: add -st
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