dense

dicht, kompakt

Mit vielen Teilen eng beieinander oder viel Material auf kleinem Raum.

In einfachem Englisch: Having many parts close together, or a lot of material in a small space.

• The forest is very dense.
• Dense fog covered the road this morning.
• This wood is dense and surprisingly heavy.

Synonyme: thick, compact, closely packed

Gegenteile: sparse, thin

Häufige Wendungen: dense forest, dense fog, dense material, dense vegetation

komplex, schwer verständlich

Mit vielen Gedanken auf wenig Raum, sodass das Verstehen Mühe erfordert.

In einfachem Englisch: Containing many ideas in little space, so it takes effort to understand.

• The book's language is dense.
• I struggled to follow the dense argument.
• Her essay is dense with references to earlier research.

So benutzt man es: dense with something (The report is dense with technical information.)

Synonyme: complex, packed

Gegenteile: simple

Häufige Wendungen: dense prose, dense text, dense with ideas, dense academic writing

begriffsstutzig, dumm

Dinge nur langsam verstehend; eine abwertende Beschreibung einer Person.

In einfachem Englisch: Slow to understand things; used as an unkind description of someone.

• Don't be so dense!
• I felt dense when I finally understood the joke.
• He called me dense for asking the same question again.

Synonyme: stupid, thick, slow

Gegenteile: clever, bright

Häufige Wendungen: be dense, so dense, a dense person, rather dense