thickly

/ˈθɪkli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈθɪkli/

thickly

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

thic - kly -> thickly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ထူထူ

Full entry

thick /θÇk/ adj (-er, -est )

၁။ (က) ထူသော။ ထူထူ။ a thick slice of bread ❍ a thick book (ie with a lot of pages) ❍ a thick line drawn with a blunt pencil ❍ a thick coat/pullover/carpet ❍ thick fingers/lips.
(ခ) အထုရှိ[သော]။ ဒုရှိ[သော]။ The ice on the lake is over six inches thick.
၂။ ~ (with sth/sb) ထူထပ်သော။ ပြည့်နေသော။ a thick forest. တောနက်။ ❍ His hair is thick and wavy. ❍ in the thickest part of the crowd ❍ The garden was thick with weeds. ❍ The building was thick with reporters.
၃။ ပျစ်သော။ thick soup/paint/glue.
၄။ ပိတ်သော။ ပိန်းနေသော။ thick fog/ smoke/ clouds.
၅။ (က) သိသိသာသာ (ဝဲသော)။ speak in a thick brogue.
(ခ) (အသံ) မကြည်မလင်မသဲကွဲသော။ You sound a bit thick this morning!
၆။ (infml ) ထူသော။ တုံးသော။ He's a bit thick.
၇။ ~ (with sb) (infml ) တပူးတွဲတွဲနေသော။ John is very thick with Anne.
adv ထူထပ်စွာ။ ထူထူ။ snow lying thick on the ground ❍ Don't spread the butter too thick.
❏ give sb/get a thick ear [IDM ] (sl ) နားရင်းအုပ်သည်။
❏ have, etc a thick head [IDM ] (infml )
၁။ ခေါင်းအုံသည်။ He woke up with a very thick head.
၂။ ထူသည်။ ထုံသည်။
❏ in the thick of sth [IDM ] ရေရေလည်လည် ကျွံဝင်လျက်။ အလယ်ကောင်တည့်တည့်။ He's always in the thick of it/things. ❍ We were in the thick of the fight.
❏ lay it on thick/with a trowel [IDM ] ပုံကြီးချဲ့သည်။ ပိုပိုကဲကဲ (ပြော၊ လုပ်)။ I laid it on thick to impress the interviewer.
❏ thick and fast [IDM ] တရစပ်စုပြုံ၍။ တစ်ပြုံတစ်ခေါင်းကြီး။ Offers of help are coming in thick and fast.
❏ (as) thick as thieves [IDM ] (infml ) တစ်ကျိတ်တည်း တစ်ဉာဏ်တည်း။
❏ (as) thick as two short planks [IDM ] (sl ) အလွန်ထူ သည်။ ထုံသည်၊ အသည်။
❏ thick-headed adj ထူသော။ ထုံသော။ အသော။ တုံးသော။
❏ thicken /'θÇkǝn/ v ထူပိန်းလာသည်။ ပျစ်အောင် လုပ်သည်။ I walked home through the thickening fog. ❍ Use flour to thicken the gravy. ❍ a stew thickened with lentils.
❏ thickening /'θÇkǝnÇŋ/ n [U, sing] တုတ်လာခြင်း။ She was aware of a thickening round her waist.
❏ thickly adv ထူထူ။ နက်နက်။ အောအော။ thickly sliced/buttered bread ❍ a thickly wooded area ❍ ‘I've got a terrible cold,’ she said thickly.
❏ thickness n
၁။ [U, C] အထူ။ အထု။ ဒု။ Snow fell to a thickness of several centimetres. ❍ Sew in a lining to give the coat some extra thickness. ❍ The wood is available in four different thicknesses.
၂။ [C] အလွှာ။ အထပ်။ The town was buried under a great thickness of volcanic ash.
၃။ [C] ဒု။ steps cut into the thickness of the wall.
❏ thick on the ground [IDM ] (infml ) ပေါများသည်။ Promising young players are thick on the ground these days.
❏ thick-skinned adj မနာတတ်သော။ အရေထူ သော။
❏ through thick and thin [IDM ] အေးအတူပူအမျှ။ ဘယ်ဘဝရောက်ရောက်။ လောကဓံမုန်တိုင်း ထန်သော်လည်း။ He remained loyal to me through thick and thin.

More examples

She was wearing a thick woollen sweater.
A thick layer of snow
Cut the bread into thick slices.
Try not to make too much noise – the walls aren’t very thick.
The walls in our house are only a few inches thick.
It is a rectangular piece of wood, perhaps 5 centimetres thick.
For dessert, serve strawberries covered in thick sweet cream.
The soup should be nice and thick.
Her thick dark hair hangs all the way to her shoulders.
A thick beard
A thick row of trees
Thick fog prevented Bobby from returning home.
[thick with] : The air was thick with smoke.
The airport was thick with police officers.
He speaks Spanish fluently, but with a thick British accent.
[thick with] : His voice was thick with fury.
He’s rich, but a bit thick.
[thick with] : She’s very thick with her next-door neighbour.

Synonyms

broad, fat, wide, chunky, bulky, solid, substantial, deep, abundant, bedcover, bedcovers, bedspread, betwixt and between, blockheaded, blub, blubber, blubbery, blubbing, boneheaded, brainless, brimming, bristling, burly, bursting, bushy, caked, chock-full, chummy, clabbered, close, clotted, cloudy, coagulated, compact, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, confidential, congealed, considerable, consolidated, copious, cordial, counterpane, covered, crammed, crawling with, crowded, curdled, dense, devoted, dim-witted, distinct, doltish, dopey, dull, dumb, excessive, extreme, familiar, filled, firm, fixed, flab, flimsy, flitch, foggy, frequent, friendly, full, gelatinous, generous, gloppy, glutinous, gooey, great, gruff, gummous, gummy, gunky, gypsum, halfway, halfway point, hand in glove, hard, heaped, heavy, high, hoarse, husky, ignorant, impenetrable, impervious, implausible, improbable, inconceivable, incredible, indistinct, insensitive, inseparable, inspissated, intimate, jelled, jellied, like sardines, lime, localized, marked, massive, middle, midriff, midsection, midst, moronic, mortar, muddy, muffled, multitudinous, numbskulled, numerous, obese, obscure, obtuse, on good terms, opaque, ossified, overflowing, packed, plaster, plaster of Paris, populated, populous, profuse, pronounced, pudgy, rank, replete, ropy, set, several, sloppy, slow, slow-witted, slurred, solidified, soupy, squat, stiff, stocky, stodgy, stubby, stucco, stumpy, stupid, swarming, swollen, syrupy, teeming, thickened

Antonyms

aloof, attenuated, bright, clear, cool, diluted, easy, empty, flexible, indefinite, intelligent, light, little, loose, low, narrow, open, reasonable, restricted, runny, sensible, skinny, slack, slight, slim, small, smart, soft, sparse, thin, trivial, uncrowded, understandable, unfriendly, unsociable, watery, weak, wise