thickest

Adjective

thick (comparative thicker, superlative thickest)

1. Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension.
   • The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride

   Synonyms:

   broad, wide

   Antonyms:

   slim, thin, close, filamentous, fine, narrow, slender, strait, tight

2. Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension.
   • I want some planks that are two inches thick.
3. Heavy in build; thickset.
   • He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side.

   Synonyms:

   chunky, solid, stocky, thickset, fat

   Antonyms:

   slender, slight, slim, svelte, thin, gaunt, gracile, lank, lean, leansome

4. Densely crowded or packed.
   • My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the...1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter III, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   crowded, dense, packed, close, compact, solid, tight

   Antonyms:

   sparse, diffuse, dispersed, incompact, loose, noncompact, scattered, spaced out, spread out, thin

5. Having a viscous consistency.
   • My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about.

   Synonyms:

   glutinous, viscous, lentous, gooey, slabby, stiff, syrupy, thickflowing, treacly, viscid

   Antonyms:

   free-flowing, runny, flowy, fluent, fluid, fluxive, liquid, mobile, thin, watery

6. Abounding in number.
   • The room was thick with reporters.

   Synonyms:

   overflowing, swarming, teeming, abounding, abundant, adequate, ample, bountiful, brimming, comfortable

   Antonyms:

   scant, scarce, slight

See all 21 meanings of thick