thickly
/ˈθɪkli/
thickly adverb: in a thick manner.
Adverb
thickly (comparative thicklier or more thickly, superlative thickliest or most thickly)
- 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...
- These he held aside, ushering her into a dark sanctuary resinously scented and thickly carpeted with pine needles.1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 148
thickly meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
thickly in Tamil
- thickly
- கதிக்க katikka
thickly in Marathi
- thickly
- घट्ट ghaṭṭa
thickly in Urdu
- گھنا گھنا, لگاتار, تابڑتوڑ
thickly in Malayalam
- കട്ടിയായി
Examples of thickly in a sentence
- He laid on the solicitude pretty thickly.
- At either end were heavy floodgates, dropwalls of thickly forged iron.
- He’d been rockabyeing in a rockingchair, then on the bed, thickly rumpled.
Antonyms of thickly
Forms of thickly
| comparative | thicklier |
|---|---|
| comparative | more thickly |
| superlative | thickliest |
| superlative | most thickly |
Origin of thickly
From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.
Questions about thickly
- What does thickly mean?
- Thickly means in a thick manner.
- What is thickly in Tamil?
- Thickly in Tamil is கதிக்க (katikka). See Thickly meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is thickly?
- Thickly is an adverb.
- How do you pronounce thickly?
- Thickly is pronounced /ˈθɪkli/.
Words near thickly in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thickly (page history and authors); கதிக்க (Tamil) (page history and authors); घट्ट (Marathi) (page history and authors); thickly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thickly (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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