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say it: thik
thick is an adjective, adverb and noun meaning "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". It is pronounced /ˈθɪk/ — thik. It carries 13 recorded senses.
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”
having component parts closely crowded together
“a compact shopping center”
“a dense population”
“thick crowds”
“a thick forest”
“thick hair”
spoken as if with a thick tongue
“the thick speech of a drunkard”
“his words were slurred”
hard to pass through because of dense growth
“dense vegetation”
“thick woods”
(used informally) associated on close terms
“a close friend”
“the bartender was chummy with the regular customers”
“the two were thick as thieves for months”
colloquialism
(used informally) stupid
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for thick come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.