Word Finder - thickest

definition

Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.

synonyms

• broad

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Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.

example

I want some planks that are two inches thick.

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Heavy in build; thickset.

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He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.

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• chunky
• solid
• stocky
• thickset

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Densely crowded or packed.

example

We walked through thick undergrowth.

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• crowded
• dense
• packed

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Having a viscous consistency.

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My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.

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• glutinous
• viscous

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Abounding in number.

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The room was thick with reporters.

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• overflowing
• swarming
• teeming

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Impenetrable to sight.

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We drove through thick fog.

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• dense
• opaque
• solid

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(Of an accent) Prominent, strong.

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Stupid.

example

He was as thick as two short planks.

synonyms

• dense
• dumb
• stupid
• thick as pigshit
• thick as two short planks

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Friendly or intimate.

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They were as thick as thieves.

synonyms

• chummy
• close
• close-knit
• friendly
• intimate
• pally
• tight-knit

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Deep, intense, or profound.

example

Thick darkness.

synonyms

• extreme
• great

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Troublesome; unreasonable

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(chiefly of women) Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips.

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In a thick manner.

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Snow lay thick on the ground.

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Frequently or numerously.

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The arrows flew thick and fast around us.

Where thickest, the traps are at least 6000 ft.

We have the thickest walls, and the creature promised to help me build the strongest armies with the strongest warriors.

In the centre of each weight is a hole capable of admitting the lowest and thickest end of the conical stem C, and a slot is cut into it just wide enough to allow the upper part of the cone to pass.

The thickest covering of drift is found in the Holderness district of Yorkshire, where, from the chalk cliffs of Flamborough Head to the sandspit of Spurn Point, the whole coast is formed of boulderclay resting on chalk.

The dish will be 3.5m deep at its thickest point forming a plenum for smoke extract from the atrium below.

Insert a meat thermometer into the thickest portion of the ham, making sure it does n't touch fat or bone.

Thicker chains and ropes are more practical and versatile, while herringbone chains are the thickest designs and only work well with thicker pendants.

Take the thickest pair he'll probably wear, in order to ensure a perfect fit.

This hard-working area is the thickest and is made of elastic materials like collagen.

With a view to enable this vessel to carry at good speed the thickest possible armour compatible with buoyancy, Ericsson reduced the exposed surface to the least possible area.

Thin enough to conceal on your wrist or under a coat, yet strong enough to penetrate the thickest hands and tables.

Cold weather garments tend to consist of the heaviest, bulkiest and often thickest pieces of clothing in the world.

Continue roasting until a thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the thigh reads 165 degrees.

Allegro is billed as the "thickest dance surface in the world" and is useful in reducing injuries to dancers.

But the real meaning is not slight; the sexual distinction has been discovered, and a new sense of shame sends the human pair into the thickest shades, when Yahweh-Elohim walks abroad.

Besides having practically all the anthracite, Pennsylvania has the thickest bituminous coal-measures, and most of the coal obtained from these is of the best quality.

The population is thickest in upper Silesia around Beuthen (coal-fields), around Ratibor, Neisse and Waldenburg (coal-fields), around Zittau (kingdom of Saxony), in the Elbe valley around Dresden, in the districts of Zwickau and Leipzig as far as the Saale, on the northern slopes of the Harz and around Bielefeld in Westphalia.

Dressed with care in white uniform and mounted on a white horse, and always in the thickest of the fray, he was known and adored by his soldiers as the "White General."

We talked of rude and simple times, when men sat about large fires in cold, bracing weather, with clear heads; and when other dessert failed, we tried our teeth on many a nut which wise squirrels have long since abandoned, for those which have the thickest shells are commonly empty.

If you decide to go ice fishing, be aware that the thickest ice will be clear blue in color.

The valves are also in some species very unequal in their respective thickness, as may be seen in Productus (Daviesiella) 1 llangollensis, Davidsonia verneuilii, &c., and while the space allotted to the animal is very great in many species, as in Terebratula sphaeroidalis, it is very small in others belonging to Stro phomena, Leptaena, Chonetes, &c. The ventral valve is usually the thickest, and in some forms is six or seven times as great as the opposite one.

There are generally two regions where the tufts are thickest, and the attraction therefore greatest, and between them is a zone in which no attraction is evidenced.

Here Douglas fell in the thickest of the melee, but his death was concealed and Henry Percy, with many other English knights, were captured and held to heavy ransom (r5th of August 1388).

The canal and river system attains its greatest utility in the north, northeast and north-centre of the country; traffic is thickest along the Seine below Paris; along the rivers and small canals of the rich departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais and along the Oise and the canal of St Quentin whereby they communicate with Paris; along the canal from the Marne to the Rhine and the succession of waterways which unite it with the Oise; along the Canal de lEst (departments of Meuse and Ardennes); and along the waterways uniting Paris with the Sane at Chalon (Seine, Canal du Loing, Canal de Briare, Lateral canal of the Loire and Canal du Centre) and along the Sane between Chalon and Lyons.

The fibula is complete, thickest at its upper end, where it generally unites with the tibia.