Thicket

Quick meaning: Thicket is a noun meaning A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

Meaning

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
2. (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.

Example Sentences

He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.

Suddenly from a lumpy tussock of old grass some twenty yards in front of them, with black-tipped ears erect and long hinder limbs throwing it forward, started a hare. It bolted for a thicket of alders.

Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

Word Forms

• thickets

Synonyms for thicket

Depending on context, synonyms include brush, copse, coppice, brushwood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include coppice, copse, brushwood, brush, jungle, shrub.

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