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Definition of Thickly
1. Adverb. Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue. "After a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"
2. Adverb. In a concentrated manner. "A thickly populated area"
3. Adverb. With a thick consistency. "The blood was flowing thick"
4. Adverb. With thickness; in a thick manner. "We were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt"
5. Adverb. In quick succession. "Misfortunes come fast and thick"
Definition of Thickly
1. adv. In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
Definition of Thickly
1. Adverb. In a thick manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thickly
1. in a thick manner [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thickly
Literary usage of Thickly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (1912)
"Each actor as he comes on looks supremely humourous and bobs. He is thickly
painted — ; the wall is two boards worn ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... and a very rich orange tending to red, ana are all thickly but very delicately
put on ; these pieces are of extreme beauty both in colors and in design. ..."
3. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"... CHAPTER XXVI Surroundings of the Spen Valley thickly-POPULATED CORNER OK THE
COUNTY ... is almost without exception the most thickly-populated corner of ..."
4. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"The peculiarity again of lupins 8 is less surprising, namely that, if the seed
is dropped where the ground is thickly overgrown, it pushes 4 its root ..."
5. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"In an industrially solidified and thickly populated country the principle of
joint cost becomes less important in determining railway rates: monopoly ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... only remaining records of those buried there are to be sought from the
thickly-strewn headstones in the extensive burying-ground surrounding the church. ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... will ultimately go into &- or 4-inch pots, and place the pieces thickly together
in boxes of sandy soil in a greenhouse with a temperature of about 60°. ..."
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