Sekirov Dictionary

thick

/θɪk/

adjective 16
noun 3
adverb 2
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 11

adjective16

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large from one side through to the other side, not thin
- The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival. — 1861
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Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
- I want some planks that are two inches thick.
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Densely crowded or packed.
- We walked through thick undergrowth.
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Abounding in number.
- The room was thick with reporters.
- Seashells lay thick on the beach.
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Having a viscous consistency.
- My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
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Impenetrable to sight.
- We drove through thick fog.
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Deep, intense, or profound.
- Thick darkness.
Prominent, strong.
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Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
- He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
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Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
- We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
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(informal) Stupid.
- He was as thick as two short planks.
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Heavy in build; thickset.
- He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
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(slang) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.
- A word to the thick soul sistas, I want to get with ya — 1991
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(informal) Friendly or intimate.
- They were as thick as thieves.
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Detailed and expansive; substantive.
- A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice). — 2013
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(UK, old-fashioned) Troublesome; unreasonable.
- "Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s." — 1969

noun3

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The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
- It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
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(slang) A stupid person; a fool.
- If there was doctorates in bollocksology and scratching yourself in bed, the two of you'd be professors by now. Pair of loafing, idle thicks. — 2014
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A thicket.
- gloomy thicks — 1612

adverb2

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In a thick manner.
- Snow lay thick on the ground.
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Frequently or numerously.
- The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

verb1

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(no longer used) To thicken.
- A wicked ambush , which lay hidden long In the close covert of her guilful eyen, Thence breaking forth , did thick about me throng — 1595

forms

thicked · thicking · thicks · thicker · thickest

Phrases with thick

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