thick
Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
Adjective 4 meanings
Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
“I want some planks that are two inches thick.”
Heavy in build; thickset.
“He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.”
Densely crowded or packed.
“We walked through thick undergrowth.”
Adverb 2 meanings
In a thick manner.
“Snow lay thick on the ground.”
Frequently or numerously.
“The arrows flew thick and fast around us.”
Noun 2 meanings
The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something.
“It was mayhem in the thick of battle.”
A thicket.
Etymology
From Middle English thikke, from Old English þicce (“thick, dense”), from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz (“thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
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THICK at a glance
THICK has 5 letters and scores 14 points in Scrabble (T 1 + H 4 + I 1 + C 3 + K 5) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,199 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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