The Clue
Like depleted uranium (5 letter answer)
The Answer
DENSE
Tags
Notes
The answer DENSE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 120 puzzles.
Related Clues
Blockheaded
Compact
Doltish
Dull
Impenetrable
Obtuse
Packed
Stupid
Thick
Thickheaded
Closely packed
Hard to penetrate
Like dunderheads
Packed tight
Slow on the uptake
Slow-witted
Thick-headed
Thickly packed
Thickly populated
Like a black hole
Like Jupiter's atmosphere
Like some forests
None too brainy
None too bright
Not very swift
Not the brightest bulb on the tree
Not the sharpest pencil in the box
Definition
DENSE as an adjective:
1. (dense, heavy, impenetrable) = permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom"
2. (compact, dense, thick) = having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"
3. (dense, thick) = hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
4. having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead"
5. (dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow) = 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"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students"