English-French translations for thick

• épais
  Certains des dossiers auxquels nous devons donner accès sont aussi épais que ça. Some of the files we have to make accessible are this thick.
  Les bombes sales réduisent en éclats les blindages épais de plusieurs centimètres des chars les plus modernes. Dirty bombs will shatter into pieces the several centimetre thick armour plates of the most modern tanks.
  À chaque marée, volontaires, militaires, pompiers retirent d'immenses galettes de ce goudron noir visqueux et épais. With every tide, the volunteers, members of the armed forces and firemen remove great pancakes of this thick, sticky, black tar.
• dense
• compact
• copains comme cochons
• fourni
• gros
  Il apparaît ainsi brusquement qu' une loi douanière simple et claire dissimule en réalité un règlement de trois gros volumes. A simple and clear-cut customs act suddenly appears to be backed by legislation which fills three thick volumes.
  Tenez-vous en aux gros bonnets, les RWE, les EDF - entrez directement dans le vif du sujet, où le problème se trouve, dissocier et appliquer la subsidiarité. Get stuck in to the big tigers, the RWEs, the EDFs - get right into the thick of things, where the problem lies, unbundle and apply subsidiarity.
• incompréhensible
  Ces tomes indigestes de plusieurs centaines de pages sont incompréhensibles pour le citoyen moyen d’un État membre de l’UE. The thick tomes of several hundred pages are incomprehensible to the average citizen of an EU Member State.
• lourd
• lourdingot
• lourdingue
• opaque
• touffu

Definition of thick

• Relatively great in extent from one surface to the opposite in its smallest solid dimension
• Measuring a certain number of units in this dimension
• Heavy in build; thickset
• Densely crowded or packed
• Having a viscous consistency
• Abounding in number
• Impenetrable to sight
• Of an accent) Prominent, strong
• Stupid
• Friendly or intimate
• Deep, intense, or profound
• troublesome; unreasonable
• Curvy and voluptuous, and especially having large hips
• In a thick manner
• Frequently or numerously
• The thickest, or most active or intense, part of something
• A thicket
• A stupid person; a fool
• To thicken

Examples

• I want some planks that are two inches thick
• He had such a thick neck that he had to turn his body to look to the side
• We walked through thick undergrowth
• My mum’s gravy was thick but at least it moved about
• The room was thick with reporters
• We drove through thick fog
• He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois
• We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent
• He was as thick as two short planks
• They were as thick as thieves
• Thick darkness
• Snow lay thick on the ground.
• The arrows flew thick and fast around us.
• It was mayhem in the thick of battle.

Related words

• thickness
• thicket
• thickening
• thickly
• thicken
• thick-skinned
• thickener
• thickened
• thickheaded