There is no good word for the opposite of dense. Fix it? - General

Disclaimer: I'm mostly asleep and this just popped into my head. Ill prolly regret this in the morning. But still, what would/should it be? Undense? Interapart? Anyone?

Loose? Sparse?

Scattered?

I was thinking more in the terms of molecules, y'know? Like sparse is for scarce and loose sorta sound like something that could fall apart easily... but we could always re-use a word that already exists... EDIT: Like when ice melts it becomes ______? EDIT2: Wait, shit, like Styrofoam is really _____. (In reference to density. )

God damnit, this is going to bug the shit out of me forever.

[QUOTE=moonglow2941;40413995]I was thinking more in the terms of molecules, y'know? Like sparse is for scarce and loose sorta sound like something that could fall apart easily... but we could always re-use a word that already exists... EDIT: Like when ice melts it becomes ______?[/QUOTE] It becomes liquid, duh!

How about 'fluffy'? Dense seems like it would be good friends with Orange. Nothing rhymes with orange, and dense has no antonym.

we have one of the largest vocabularies in the world, and yet we still have holes. Though all other languages have holes, somewhere. And this is called a lexical gap. Like we don't have a plural form of you, which leads to y'all, yousguys etc.

porous or buoyant

[QUOTE=Last or First;40414076]Nothing rhymes with orange, [/QUOTE] Door-hinge.

If it was dense in terms of weight and mass, the closest you could get is 'light'. If it's how close together a group of items would be, 'scattered' would probably be a good opposite.

The opposite of dense is atheist. Checkmate Christians.

Not dense.

[QUOTE=darcy010;40414521]The opposite of dense is atheist. Checkmate Christians.[/QUOTE] How many times do I have to say this to [i]dense[/i] people like you? [b]STOP BRINGING UP RELIGION IN A THREAD THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, FOR FUCK'S SAKE.[/b]

[QUOTE=moonglow2941;40413995]I was thinking more in the terms of molecules, y'know? Like sparse is for scarce and loose sorta sound like something that could fall apart easily... but we could always re-use a word that already exists... EDIT: Like when ice melts it becomes ______?[/QUOTE] Density is a physical property. In reference to molecular structure, an object that is not dense would be described as having "low density", and in most technical contexts an exact or approximate density would be given, as arbitrary qualifiers don't carry any real meaning. Basically, an exact term for "low density" doesn't need to exist.

[QUOTE=JayFeather1337;40414273]we have one of the largest vocabularies in the world, and yet we still have holes. Though all other languages have holes, somewhere. And this is called a lexical gap. Like we don't have a plural form of you, which leads to y'all, yousguys etc.[/QUOTE] You is plural. [editline]25th April 2013[/editline] Can be anyways

diluted...?

[QUOTE=Last or First;40414076]How about 'fluffy'? Dense seems like it would be good friends with Orange. Nothing rhymes with orange, and dense has no antonym.[/QUOTE] Sporange. It exists.

sparse

What about just sparse or uncompressed? [QUOTE=Last or First;40414076]Nothing rhymes with orange,[/QUOTE] Or silver, purple, and month.

[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;40414869]What about just sparse or uncompressed? Or silver, purple, and month.[/QUOTE] Gorringe, chilver, hurple and grunth. I will agree that sparse is the best possible opposite of dense.

intelligent :v:

Density <-> Scantiness maybe?

Nobody on Facepunch.:v:

rare???

Dispersed?

Desuh?

Less dense?

open, sparse, uncompressed, thin, But the word dense has a lot of meanings, if you're thinking of the word dense as "stupid" or maybe "busy" or "crowded" then the opposite of that would be smart/intelligent, empty, or uncrowded. The opposite of dense as in the mass to volume relationship of objects doesn't really matter because you're measuring [B]how[/B] dense something is, not if the object is dense or not. In other words the english language is weird and confusing because half of the words in it have different meanings and pronunciations

The air is getiing less dense, it's getting thin.