thick

Plural: thicks

Noun

• The densest or most concentrated part of something.
• the location of something surrounded by other things
• The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
• A thicket.
• A stupid person; a fool.

Adjective

• Having a great extent between opposite surfaces; dense.
• not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions
  • "an inch thick"
  • "a thick board"
  • "a thick sandwich"
  • "spread a thick layer of butter"
  • "thick coating of dust"
  • "thick warm blankets"
• relatively dense in consistency
  • "thick cream"
  • "thick soup"
  • "thick smoke"
  • "thick fog"

Adjective Satellite

• having component parts closely crowded together
  • "thick crowds"
  • "a thick forest"
  • "thick hair"
• spoken as if with a thick tongue
  • "the thick speech of a drunkard"
• having a short and solid form or stature
  • "a thickset young man"
• hard to pass through because of dense growth
  • "thick woods"
• (of darkness) very intense
  • "thick night"
  • "thick darkness"
• (used informally) associated on close terms
  • "the two were thick as thieves for months"
• (used informally) stupid
• abounding; having a lot of
  • "the top was thick with dust"

Adverb

• with a thick consistency
  • "the blood was flowing thick"
• in quick succession
  • "misfortunes come fast and thick"

Adj

• Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
• Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
• Heavy in build; thickset.
• Densely crowded or packed.
• Having a viscous consistency.
• Abounding in number.
• Impenetrable to sight.
• Prominent, strong.
• Greatly evocative of one's nationality or place of origin.
• Prominent, strong.
• Difficult to understand, or poorly articulated.
• Stupid.
• Friendly or intimate.
• Deep, intense, or profound.
• Detailed and expansive; substantive.
• Troublesome; unreasonable.
• Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

Adv

• In a thick manner.
• Frequently or numerously.

Verb

• To thicken.

Det

• Alternative form of thilk (“that same”).

Examples

• He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois.
• He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.
• He was as thick as two short planks.
• He was in the THICK of the Scrabble game, surrounded by high-scoring possibilities.
• I want some planks that are two inches thick.
• It was mayhem in the thick of battle.
• My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.
• Snow lay thick on the ground.
• The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
• The plot THICK with strategy, she meticulously planned her next Scrabble move.
• The room was thick with reporters.
• They were as thick as thieves.
• Thick darkness.
• We drove through thick fog.
• We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent.
• We walked through thick undergrowth.

Synonyms

blockheaded, boneheaded, buddy-buddy, chummy, compact, deep, dense, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, heavyset, loggerheaded, midst, slurred, stocky, thick-skulled, thickheaded, thickly, thickset, wooden-headed, Boeotian, Chinese, Greek, Rubenesque, abounding, abstruse, abundant, addlebrained, addlepated, adequate, adiaphanous, airheaded, ample, ass-brained, bee-brained, beef-witted, beefheaded, beetle-headed, birdbrained, boofheaded, bountiful, brainless, brimming, broad, bubbleheaded, buffle-headed, built, bullet-headed, buxom, cerebrally challenged, childish, chowderheaded, chubby, chuckleheaded, chunky, close, close-knit, comfortable, copious, crackbrained, cretinous, crowded, curvaceous, curvesome, curvy, dented, dim, dim-bulb, dim-headed, dim-witted, doltish, dopey, dozy, drowsy, dull, dull-headed, dull-minded, dull-witted, dumb, dumb as a bag of hammers, dumb as a box of rocks, dumb as a doorknob, dumb as a post, dumb as a sack of hammers, dumb as an ox, dumb as dirt, dumber than a box of rocks, dumber than a rock, dunderheaded, embonpoint, empty-headed, enigmatic, enough, extreme, fathomless, fecund, feeble-minded, fertile, flea-brained, foolish, friendly, fruitful, fuckwitted, full-figured, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, galore, generous, glutinous, gooey, great, half-brained, half-witted, hammer-headed, idiotic, imbecilic, impenetrable, inane, inapprehensible, incognizable, incomprehensible, ineffable, inenubilable, inexplicable, inscrutable, insensible, insipid, insoluble, insolvable, intellectually challenged, intimate, juicy, knuckleheaded, lamebrained, lavish, lentous, liberal, lowbrow, lumpish, lunkheaded, luscious, luxuriant, manysome, mentally challenged, mentally retarded, mindless, monosynaptic, moronic, muttonheaded, mysterious, nitwitted, nontransparent, nonunderstandable, not the sharpest crayon in the box, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, not the sharpest tool in the shed, numbskulled, numerous, oafish, obscure, obtuse, opacous, opacular, opaque, overflowing, packed, pally, peabrained, plenteous, plentiful, pneumatic, pratty, profuse, prolific, pudding-headed, puerile, purblind, quarter-witted, red-hot, replete, retarded, retruse, rich, rife, rockheaded, sharp as a bowling ball, sheep-headed, shit-for-brains, simple, slabby, slow, slow-witted, smooth-brained, solid, sonsy, stiff, stolid, stupid, sufficient, swarming, syrupy, teeming, thicc, thick, thick as a brick, thick as a plank, thick as a whale omelette, thick as champ, thick as mince, thick as pig shit, thick as pigshit, thick as two short planks, thickflowing, thickwitted, tight, tight-knit, toothsome, treacly, unapprehensive, unclear, unclever, undecipherable, undiscoverable, unexplainable, unfathomable, ungraspable, unintelligent, unintelligible, unknowable, unsmart, ununderstandable, vacant, vacuous, viscid, viscose, viscous, voluptuous, wealthy, well-endowed, well-proportioned, wide, witless, wool-headed, woolly-headed, woolly-minded, zaftig

Antonyms

thin, thinly, brainless, brainy, clear, compact, confusing, dense, dumb, foolish, free-flowing, gelatinous, hazy, heavy, idiotic, imbecile, incomprehensible, insensible, intelligent, lacteous, large, lowbrow, lucid, mindless, obese, opaque, overweight, pulpy, resinous, runny, scant, scarce, slender, slight, slim, smart, sparse, strapping, stupid, svelte, translucent, transparent, unacquainted, unintelligent, viscous, wide, witless

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