Word family noun thick thickness thickener thickening thicko adjective thick verb thicken adverb thickly
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthicklythick‧ly /ˈθɪkli/ adverb 1 in a way that makes a thick piece or layer of something OPP thinly The cheese was sliced thickly. a thickly carpeted hallway2 → thickly populated/wooded etcExamples from the Corpus
thickly• He was a stout man with a bald crown round which a ruff of brown hair grew thickly.• He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur.• Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.• It has a thickly soft, two-beat thud, like the sound of a heavy door being repeatedly opened and shut.• A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spiced bowl of soup.• The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper couldn't keep the glass free of it. 