English-Spanish translations for thick

• espeso
  Con cada marea, voluntarios, militares, bomberos retiran inmensas tortas de este alquitrán negro, viscoso y espeso. With every tide, the volunteers, members of the armed forces and firemen remove great pancakes of this thick, sticky, black tar.
• grueso
  Los gruesos volúmenes de varios cientos de páginas resultan incomprensibles para el ciudadano medio de un Estado miembro de la UE. The thick tomes of several hundred pages are incomprehensible to the average citizen of an EU Member State.
  Una ley aduanera única y clara parece convertirse de repente en una reglamentación de tres tomos gruesos. A simple and clear-cut customs act suddenly appears to be backed by legislation which fills three thick volumes.
  ¿Quién es responsable en el Consejo de enviar gruesos libros en todos los idiomas, sin glosarios que permitan localizar los puntos de particular interés? Who in the Council is responsible for sending out thick books in all the languages without glossaries which would have enabled people to locate those places in which they were particularly interested?

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