When something's thick, it's wide from one side to the other, like a thick piece of French toast or a thick layer of snow on your car. Thick things are broad or bulky or decidedly not thin — think of the thick slab of ice you need in order to skate safely on a lake.
The meaning of THICK is having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite. How to use thick in a sentence.
THICK definition: 1. having a large distance between two sides: 2. growing close together and in large amounts: 3…. Learn more.
If something is thick with another thing, the first thing is full of or covered with the second.
thick (thik), adj., -er, -est, adv., -er, -est, n. not thin: a thick slice. (of a solid having three general dimensions) measured across its smallest dimension: a board one inch thick. dense: a thick fog; a thick forest. filled, covered, or abounding (usually fol. by with): tables thick with dust.
- In a thick manner; deeply or heavily: Seashells lay thick on the beach. 2. In a close, compact state or arrangement; densely: Dozens of braids hung thick from the back of her head. 3. So as to be thick; thickly: Slice the bread thick for the best French toast.
THICK definition: having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin. See examples of thick used in a sentence.
Definition of thick adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.