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thickliest

thickliest is the superlative form of thickly.

Meaning of thickly

Adverb

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

  1. In a thick manner.
    • 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...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...

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What is thickliest the superlative form of?
Thickliest is the superlative form of thickly.

Words near thickliest in the dictionary

  1. thickies
  2. thicking
  3. thickish
  4. thickleaf
  5. thicklier
  6. thickliest
  7. thicklips
  8. thickly
  9. thickneck
  10. thicknecks
  11. thickness

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