thickened

Other forms of thickened

comparative

thickenedder·

superlative

thickeneddest·

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.

Questions about thickened

What does thickened mean?

thickened means "made or having become thick". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thickened?

thickened has 2 syllables: thic-kened. The stress falls on "thic". In IPA it is /ˈθɪkənd/.

What is another word for thickened?

Close synonyms include calloused, callous. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thickened a common word?

thickened is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.