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thickhead |
thickheaded |
thickish |
thickly |
thickly settled |
thickness
| thickset
| thickskin
| thickskull
| thickspread
| thider
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun thickness has 4 senses
- thickness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; Array is a kind of dimension
- thickness(n = noun.communication) Array - indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily" is a kind of articulation
- thickness(n = noun.attribute) heaviness - used of a line or mark; Array is a kind of broadness, wideness
- thickness(n = noun.attribute) Array - resistance to flow; Array is a kind of body, consistence, consistency, eubstance
has particulars: gauge
Derived form adjective thick6
Antonym: thinness
Derived form adjective thick4
Derived form adjective thick1
has particulars: semifluidity, creaminess, soupiness
Derived form adjective thick3
Antonym: thinness
CIDE DICTIONARY
thickness, n. [AS. icnes.].
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
thickness, n.
1 the state of being thick.
2 the extent to which a thing is thick.
3 a layer of material of a certain thickness (three thicknesses of cardboard).
4 a part that is thick or lies between opposite surfaces (steps cut in the thickness of the wall).
1 the state of being thick.
2 the extent to which a thing is thick.
3 a layer of material of a certain thickness (three thicknesses of cardboard).
4 a part that is thick or lies between opposite surfaces (steps cut in the thickness of the wall).
Etymology
OE thicness (as THICK, -NESS)
THESAURUS
thickness
adhesiveness, band, bed, bedding, belt, bodily size, body, bulk, cacophony, clabbering, clamminess, closeness, clotting, coagulation, coarseness, colloidality, compactness, congestedness, congestion, consistence, consistency, corpulence, couche, course, cracked voice, crowdedness, curdling, deck, denseness, density, depth, discord, distance through, doughiness, dryness, fatness, firmness, floor, gallery, gelatinity, gelatinousness, gluelikeness, gluiness, glutinosity, glutinousness, grossness, gruffness, gumlikeness, gumminess, gutturalism, gutturality, gutturalness, hardness, harshness, heaviness, hoarseness, huskiness, impenetrability, impermeability, imporosity, incompressibility, incrassation, inspissation, jammedness, jellification, jellylikeness, layer, ledge, lentor, level, mass, measures, mucilaginousness, overlayer, overstory, pastiness, raspiness, raucity, relative density, ropiness, roughness, rudeness, scrapiness, scratchiness, seam, shelf, slabbiness, sliminess, solidity, solidness, specific gravity, spissitude, stage, step, stertorousness, stickiness, stodginess, story, stratum, stringiness, substratum, superstratum, syrupiness, tackiness, tenaciousness, tenacity, the third dimension, thickening, throatiness, tier, topsoil, toughness, treacliness, ugliness, underlayer, understory, understratum, viscidity, viscosity, viscousness, zoneROGET THESAURUS
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Thickness,
N breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope, breadth, thickness, breadth, width, latitude, amplitude, diameter, bore, caliber, radius, superficial extent, thickness, crassitude, corpulence, dilation, broad, wide, ample, extended, discous, fanlike, outspread, outstretched, wide as a church-door, latifoliate, latifolous, thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset, thick as a rope.
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