THICKLY


Meaning of THICKLY in English

thick ‧ ly /ˈθɪkli/ BrE AmE adverb

[ Word Family: noun : ↑ thick , ↑ thickness , ↑ thickener , thickening, ↑ thicko ; verb : ↑ thicken ; adverb : ↑ thickly ; adjective : ↑ thick ]

1 . in a way that makes a thick piece or layer of something OPP thinly :

The cheese was sliced thickly.

a thickly carpeted hallway

2 . thickly populated/wooded etc if an area is thickly populated, wooded etc, there are a lot of people, trees etc there close together SYN densely :

The eastern part of the country is more thickly populated.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.