dense

密な、密集した

多くの部分が近接している、または狭い空間に多くの物質がある。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： thick, compact, closely packed

反対語： sparse, thin

よく使う表現： dense forest, dense fog, dense material, dense vegetation

難解な、内容の詰まった

少ない文章などに多くの考えが詰まり、理解に努力が必要な。

やさしい英語で： 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.

使い方： dense with something (The report is dense with technical information.)

類義語： complex, packed

反対語： simple

よく使う表現： dense prose, dense text, dense with ideas, dense academic writing

鈍い、物分かりが悪い

理解が遅いという意味で、人をけなす言い方。

やさしい英語で： 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.

類義語： stupid, thick, slow

反対語： clever, bright

よく使う表現： be dense, so dense, a dense person, rather dense