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halfwitted, block-headed, doltish, Boeotian, cretinous,
imbecilic, moronic, US thimble-witted; insensitive,
thick-skinned; Colloq dim-witted, Slang dopey: How could anyone
so thick have become an executive? 7 guttural, hoarse, throaty,
raspy, rasping, rough, husky, grating, gravelly, indistinct,
distorted, inarticulate; gruff, raucous: 'I need you,' he
moaned, his voice thick with emotion. 8 close, friendly, like
that, inseparable, devoted, hand in glove, on good terms, on the
best (of) terms, intimate, Colloq chummy, pally, (as) thick as
thieves, Brit matey, well in, US palsy-walsy: We were thick in
the old days, going everywhere together. 9 marked, pronounced,
strong, decided, obvious, typical: She speaks English with a
thick Polish accent.
--n. 10 core, heart, centre, middle, focus, midst: If it's a
fight, you can be sure that Timothy will be in the thick of it.
thicken v. coagulate, clot, congeal, jell, gel, set, solidify, stiffen,
harden, firm up, cake, incrassate, inspissate: Cornflour can be
used to thicken sauces.
thicket n. copse, brake, grove, covert, wood, Brit spinney: We
concealed our horses in the thicket and stole ahead on foot.
thick-skinned
n. insensitive, insensate, dull, obtuse, stolid, callous,
numb(ed), steeled, hardened, toughened, tough, unsusceptible,
inured, unfeeling, case-hardened, impervious, pachydermatous,
Colloq hard-boiled: You must be very thick-skinned not to
realize that they were getting at you.
thief n. 1 robber, burglar, cat burglar, housebreaker, picklock,
sneak-thief, safe-cracker, pilferer, shoplifter, purloiner;
embezzler, peculator; pickpocket, cutpurse, purse-snatcher,
mugger, highwayman, footpad, brigand, bandit, thug, dacoit,
ruffian, outlaw, desperado, hijacker, gunman, plunderer;
poacher; Technical kleptomaniac, Australian bush-ranger, US
road-agent, Colloq hold-up man, crook, US second-story or
second-storey man, bandito or bandido, Slang cracksman, box man,
dip, stick-up man: They caught the thief who took the
paintings. 2 cheat, swindler, confidence man, mountebank,
charlatan, sharper, trickster, flimflam artist or man,
thimblerigger, Colloq con man, con artist, shell-game artist, US