thick

1. (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.Examples: "He answered me in his characteristically thick Creole patois."

2. (Of an accent) Prominent, strong.Examples: "We had difficulty understanding him with his thick accent."Synonyms: unclear, abstruse, Chinese, dense, enigmatic, fathomless, Greek, inapprehensibleAntonyms: clear, lucid, confusing, incomprehensible

3. (informal) Stupid.Examples: "He was as thick as two short planks."Synonyms: dense, dumb, stupid, thick as pigshit, thick as two short planks, addlebrained, addlepated, airheadedAntonyms: brainy, intelligent, smart, brainless, dumb, foolish, idiotic, imbecileinformal

4. (informal) Friendly or intimate.Examples: "They were as thick as thieves."; "Jem is a tall, good-looking fellow, as old as I am, and that's twenty-one last birthday; we came into the office together years ago, and have been very thick ever since"Synonyms: chummy, close, close-knit, friendly, pally, intimate, tight-knitAntonyms: unacquaintedinformal

5. (academic) Detailed and expansive; substantive.Examples: "Thick prehistory also is interested in a much broader array of topics than the perennial sociological concern for how individuals relate to the collective and how social continuity and change occur in light of that relationship; thick prehistory addresses the social, biological, and psychological person."; "A thick theory, such as libertarianism or socialism, is not appropriate as the basis for a constitution in a pluralistic society in which the people hold differing views about the good (or justice)."; "Nor is his defence of market capitalism likely to persuade all his progressive friends, because no matter how much fairness is achieved through an application of the difference principle, they are reluctant to accept Tomasi’s defence of private property rights or a thick concept of economic freedom."literary

6. (UK, dated) Troublesome; unreasonable.Examples: "“Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing. Pretty thick, isn’t it?”"; ""Of course I was eager to put her affairs in order," George told my father, "but I found it a bit thick when expected to pay for Lord Randolph Churchill's barouche purchased in the '80s.""UKdated