thicket

[thik-it]

noun

1. a thick or dense growth of shrubs, bushes, or small trees; a thick coppice.

thicket

/ ˈθɪkɪt /

noun

1. a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

Other Word Forms

• thicketed adjective
• thickety adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket¹

before 1000; Old English thiccet (not recorded in ME), equivalent to thicce thick + -et noun suffix

Word History and Origins

Origin of thicket¹

Old English thiccet; see _thick

Example Sentences

A nonprofit credit counselor can help you navigate the thicket of options that different creditors might offer on different types of debt.

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Beijing has used government investigations into American companies to place pressure on the U.S., which over the years has steadily imposed an ever-growing thicket of export restrictions and tariffs on Chinese goods.

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If you peer into the mind of a model, what you find won’t be recognizably human; it’s really a thicket of statistics, producing words by splitting language into long sequences of vectors.

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Moreover, “Anemone” teasingly delves into a paternal legacy— the price sons pay for inheriting their fathers’ flaws—as it considers the moral thickets of Britain’s late-20th-century history.

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It’s a verdant thicket of spindly branches that towers over a straw-hatted man in the shadow below, no doubt seeking respite from the heat.

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Related Words

• clump 
• underbrush