thickly

English

Etymology

From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɪkli/

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Adverb

thickly (comparative thicklier or more thickly, superlative thickliest or most thickly)

1. In a thick manner.
   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter IV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume I, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the first (The Maiden), pages 40–41:

     In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, page 148:

     These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.

   • 1961 October, Voyageur, “The Cockermouth, Keswick and Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:

     Through the thickly wooded and precipitous slopes on either side of the line there are one or two short rock tunnels.

Antonyms

• thinly

Translations

in a thick manner

Finnish: paksusti (fi) French: épaissement (fr) Macedonian: густо (gusto) Norman: êpaissement Russian: гу́сто (ru) (gústo) (densely)