thick

thick
adj
1. broad, wide, beamy; large, big, ample, bulky, solid.
2. close-packed, close, dense, gross, heavy, crowded, serried; impenetrable, impermeable, impassable, thickset; compact, tight, compressed, condensed, consolidated.
3. abundant, plentiful, plenteous, numerous, Inf. aplenty; full, filled, Inf. chock-full, jammed, packed, Inf. jam-packed, crammed, stuffed; rife, replete, abounding, overflowing, running or spilling over, bristling; teeming with, swarming with, crawling with, alive with, Sl. lousy with, thick with.
4. profound, deep, mysterious; intense, extreme, acute, excessive.
5. husky, hoarse, dry, scratching, cracked; harsh, rough, raucous, gruff, raspy, gravelly, grating; guttural, throaty, raspy; indistinct, unclear, blurred, muffled, inarticulate, confused.
6. viscous, viscid, glutinous, ropy, mucilaginous; inspissated, Pharm. incrassated; clotted, grumous, curdled, coagulated; gelatinous, congealed, jellified, jelled, jellied, set.
7. turbid, roily, roiled, muddy, sedimentous, feculent.
8. misty, foggy, nubilous, vaporous, soupy, murky, obscure; hazy, smoky, smazy, smoggy, polluted.
9.Informal. chummy, clubby, inseparable, hob-and-nob, hand and glove, Sl. buddy-buddy, Sl. palsy-walsy, Inf. thick as thieves; well-acquainted, familiar, close, Scot. pack, dear, intimate, confidential, bosom; friendly, comradely, brotherly, sisterly.
10. stupid, unintelligent, dull-witted, dull, slow, Sl. lamebrained, Inf. dopey, Inf. dill, oxlike; duncish, obtuse, bovine, Inf. cretinous, stolid, Boeotian; empty-headed, brainless, dim-witted, slow-witted, halfwitted, fat-witted, beef-witted, thick-witted; boneheaded, wooden-headed, doltish, blockheaded, blockish, imbecilic, Inf. moronic.

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  • Thick — (th[i^]k), a. [Compar. {Thicker} ( [ e]r); superl. {Thickest}.] [OE. thicke, AS. [thorn]icce; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. [thorn]ykkr, [thorn]j[ o]kkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir. tiugh. Cf.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thick — [thik] adj. [ME thikke < OE thicce, thick, dense, akin to Ger dick < IE base * tegu , thick, fat > OIr tiug] 1. having relatively great depth; of considerable extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin [a thick board] 2.… …   English World dictionary

  • thick — ► ADJECTIVE 1) with opposite sides or surfaces relatively far apart. 2) (of a garment or fabric) made of heavy material. 3) made up of a large number of things or people close together: thick forest. 4) (thick with) densely filled or covered with …   English terms dictionary

  • thick — thick; thick·en; thick·en·er; thick·et; thick·et·ed; thick·ety; thick·ish; thick·ly; thick·ness; thick·head·ed·ly; thick·head·ed·ness; …   English syllables

  • Thick — Thick, n. 1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. [1913 Webster] In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles. [1913 Webster] 2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton. [1913 Webster] Through the thick they heard one… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thick — [adj1] deep, bulky blubbery, broad, burly, chunky, compact, concrete, consolidated, fat, firm, hard, heavy, high, husky, massive, obese, pudgy, solid, squat, stocky, stubby, stumpy, substantial, thickset, wide; concepts 491,773 Ant. attenuated,… …   New thesaurus

  • Thick — can refer to:* Thick description of human behavior * Thick set, a set of integers * Thick Records, a record label * Thick Physique * A thick , someone lacking in intelligence. Stupid person …   Wikipedia

  • thick — (adj.) O.E. þicce not thin, dense, from P.Gmc. *theku , *thekwia (Cf. O.S. thikki, O.H.G. dicchi, Ger. dick, O.N. þykkr, O.Fris. thikke), from PIE *tegu thick (Cf. Gaelic tiugh). Secondary O.E. sense of close together is preserved in …   Etymology dictionary

  • Thick — (th[i^]k), adv. [AS. [thorn]icce.] 1. Frequently; fast; quick. [1913 Webster] 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. [1913 Webster] 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. [1913 Webster]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • thick´en|er — thick|en «THIHK uhn», transitive verb. to make thick or thicker: »to thicken a wall. Mother thickens the gravy with flour. SYNONYM(S): coagulate, congeal, condense. –v.i. 1. to become thick or thicker: »The pudding will thicken as it cools. The… …   Useful english dictionary

  • thick|en — «THIHK uhn», transitive verb. to make thick or thicker: »to thicken a wall. Mother thickens the gravy with flour. SYNONYM(S): coagulate, congeal, condense. –v.i. 1. to become thick or thicker: »The pudding will thicken as it cools. The weather… …   Useful english dictionary

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