THICKLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thickly mean? 

• THICKLY (adverb)
  The adverb THICKLY has 5 senses:

1. spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue

2. in a concentrated manner

3. with a thick consistency

4. with thickness; in a thick manner

5. in quick succession

  Familiarity information: THICKLY used as an adverb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THICKLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue

Context example:

after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly

Pertainym:

thick (spoken as if with a thick tongue)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a concentrated manner

Synonyms:

densely; thickly

Context example:

a thickly populated area

Antonym:

thinly (in a widely distributed manner)

Pertainym:

thick (having component parts closely crowded together)

Sense 3

Meaning:

With a thick consistency

Synonyms:

thick; thickly

Context example:

the blood was flowing thick

Antonym:

thinly (without viscosity)

Pertainym:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

Sense 4

Meaning:

With thickness; in a thick manner

Context example:

we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt

Antonym:

thinly (in a small quantity or extent)

Pertainym:

thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

In quick succession

Synonyms:

thick; thickly

Context example:

misfortunes come fast and thick

 Context examples 

“Agnes!” I said, thickly, “Lorblessmer! Agnes!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

"Dear, dear Norland," said Elinor, "probably looks much as it always does at this time of the year. The woods and walks thickly covered with dead leaves."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“I’ve always been reckoned a genelman-like sort of man,” said Berks, thickly, “but if so be as I’ve said or done what I ’adn’t ought to—”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The snow was flying more thickly, and White Fang, whimpering softly to himself as he stumbled and limped along, came upon a fresh trail in the snow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The top of the plateau was dotted thickly with pine-trees of varying height.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The Boscombe Pool is thickly wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the edge.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Do you say she makes a good living out of stories like this?" and Jo looked more respectfully at the agitated group and thickly sprinkled exclamation points that adorned the page.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

We shifted our position from among the tick-laden bushes until we came to a small clearing thickly surrounded by trees upon all sides.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)