English-Portuguese translations for thick

• espesso
  Estou habituado a presidir às votações e nunca tinha visto um dossiê tão espesso para um único relatório. I am used to chairing the vote, but I have never seen such a thick dossier for a single report.
  Os espessos tomos de várias centenas de páginas são incompreensíveis para o cidadão médio de um Estado-Membro da UE. The thick tomes of several hundred pages are incomprehensible to the average citizen of an EU Member State.
  A cada maré, voluntários, militares, bombeiros, retiram enormes bolachas deste alcatrão negro, viscoso e espesso. With every tide, the volunteers, members of the armed forces and firemen remove great pancakes of this thick, sticky, black tar.
• grosso
• denso
• estúpido

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