thickly settled

1. 1.

   densely populated

   Synonymspopulous

   Similarinhabited

Questions about thickly settled

What does thickly settled mean?

thickly settled means "densely populated".

What is another word for thickly settled?

Close synonyms include populous. 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 thickly settled a common word?

thickly settled is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.