dense

denso, espeso

Con muchas partes muy juntas o mucha materia en poco espacio.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: thick, compact, closely packed

Antónimos: sparse, thin

Expresiones frecuentes: dense forest, dense fog, dense material, dense vegetation

denso

Con muchas ideas concentradas en poco espacio, por lo que cuesta entenderlo.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Cómo se usa: dense with something (The report is dense with technical information.)

Sinónimos: complex, packed

Antónimos: simple

Expresiones frecuentes: dense prose, dense text, dense with ideas, dense academic writing

corto, torpe

Que tarda en entender las cosas; es una manera despectiva de describir a alguien.

En inglés sencillo: 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.

Sinónimos: stupid, thick, slow

Antónimos: clever, bright

Expresiones frecuentes: be dense, so dense, a dense person, rather dense