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dense collapse: 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"; 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"

antonym collapse: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'"

attribute collapse: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

verse collapse: a piece of poetry; a line of metrical text; familiarize through thorough study or experience; "She versed herself in Roman archeology"; compose verses or put into verse; "He versified the ancient saga"

statutory collapse: prescribed or authorized by or punishable under a statute; "statutory restrictions"; "a statutory age limit"; "statutory crimes"; "statutory rape"; relating to or created by statutes; "statutory matters"; "statutory law"

rigid collapse: incapable of or resistant to bending; "a rigid strip of metal"; "a table made of rigid plastic"; "a palace guardsman stiff as a poker"; "stiff hair"; "a stiff neck"; designating an airship or dirigible having a form maintained by a stiff unyielding frame or structure; incapable of compromise or flexibility

synonym collapse: two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context

homonym collapse: two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings

vigorous collapse: characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake"; "a vigorous campaign"; "a vigorous foreign policy"; "vigorous opposition to the war"; strong and active physically or mentally; "a vigorous old man who spent half of his day on horseback"- W.H.Hudson

letter collapse: a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"; an award earned by participation in a school sport; "he won letters in three sports"; the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters"; a strictly literal interpretation (as distinct from the intention); "he followed instructions to the letter"; "he obeyed the letter of the law"; owner who lets another person use something (housing usually) for hire; mark letters on or mark with letters; set down or print with letters; win an athletic letter

orthodox collapse: adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"; of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism; "Orthodox Judaism"; of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church

character assassination collapse: an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

proverb collapse: a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

literal collapse: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him"; limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation"; avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth"

aground collapse: with the bottom lodged on the ground; "he ran the ship aground"

stoneware collapse: ceramic ware that is fired in high heat and vitrified and nonporous

dinnerware collapse: the tableware (plates and platters and serving bowls etc.) used in serving a meal

strenuous collapse: characterized by or performed with much energy or force; "strenuous exercise"

unkind collapse: lacking kindness; "a thoughtless and unkind remark"; "the unkindest cut of all"

participle collapse: a non-finite form of the verb; in English it is used adjectivally and to form compound tenses

part of speech collapse: one of the traditional categories of words intended to reflect their functions in a grammatical context

preposition collapse: a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word; (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached)

adjective collapse: the word class that qualifies nouns; a word that expresses an attribute of something; relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law ; "adjective law"

adverb collapse: the word class that qualifies verbs or clauses; a word that modifies something other than a noun

scent collapse: an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced; catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs"

unchangeable collapse: not changeable or subject to change; "a fixed and unchangeable part of the germ plasm"-Ashley Montagu; "the unchangeable seasons"; "one of the unchangeable facts of life"

purist collapse: someone who insists on great precision and correctness (especially in the use of words)

compulsory collapse: required by rule; "in most schools physical education is compulsory"; "attendance is mandatory"; "required reading"

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