thicket
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈθɪkɪt/
:
matorral
- As we walked along the trail, we found a small clearing surrounded by a dense thicket of bushes.
- dense thicket
- impenetrable thicket
- thicket of bamboo
So I just like, I'm like trying to sit in the thicket and not panic.
- So I just like, I'm like trying to sit in the thicket and not panic.
- And he's, he looks and he says there was a, a lamb, a ram caught in the thicket.
- It is my hope to sort of light you a path forward to get you out of the thickets of these difficult relationships with narcissists.
- There I go to to guide you through the thicket of the mammography wars as both a reporter and as a consumer.
- So, but to get to that place, you know, you got to go through a real thicket of, of our of those ego sabotage things that, that, that stop you.
Examples
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They crawled into the thicket.
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Toward evening, I heard a catbird calling from the thicket of Virginia creeper.
Fiction book (1991) -
I'll be in that thicket there.
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- Go behind that thicket.
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I had one in that thicket.
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When we came to the birch thicket, I drew up my horse and looked back.
Fiction book (1993) -
There was a willow thicket there, and then cottonwoods on the other side.
Fiction book (1995) -
The whole far side of the ravine was covered with a thicket of blackberries.
Fiction book (1995) -
Search the thicket.
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Curtin, you round up the burros and herd them in that thicket there.
Synonyms
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2.2
A thick group of small trees and bushes
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2.0
A row of closely planted bushes that forms a low natural fence
7
3.9
Low plants and bushes that grow under tall trees in a forest
5
5.9
A row of bushes planted close together that makes a low fence between fields or beside a road
3
7.5
A small group of trees growing close together
1
9.5
A small group of trees or bushes near a field
1
5.7
An area of thick bushes that is hard to walk through
1
9.1
Small area of trees or bushes that are cut to the ground regularly to make new growth
1
9.9
A small group of trees standing alone in open land
A small group of trees growing close together
A thick area of low trees and thorny bushes
Thick plants and small trees that grow above the ground in a forest or field
Antonyms
Compounds
How Dense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thicket comes from the simple word thick plus a little ending -et that makes a small thing or place, so you can think of it as 'small thick'. So a thicket is a 'small thick' area — a dense group of bushes or small trees, which explains its meaning today.