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

Her delighted scrolling through a thicket of ads on a clickbait article on a tip Brad Pitt left someone is a little comic gem.

From Los Angeles Times

“Spirit Voices” conjured an ayahuasca reverie with its thicket of guitars and hand percussion, while the sprawling and time-signature-bending “The Cool, Cool River” showed Simon the musician — not just the poet — still in absolute command.

From Los Angeles Times

After graduating in 2003, Miller went to Duke University before landing on Capitol Hill, where he threaded his way up the far-right thicket with then-Rep.

From Los Angeles Times

Democratic lawmakers for years have tried to cut through the thicket of regulations under the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, and faced stiff opposition from powerful labor groups.

From Los Angeles Times

England's chief medical officer for England Professor Chris Whitty has cautioned against creating a system that would risk terminally ill patients being "stuck in a bureaucratic thicket" in their final months of life.

From BBC

Related Words

• clump 
• underbrush