thickly

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue

   After a few drinks they were beginning to speak thickly.

2. 2
   adv

   In a thick manner.

   In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.

3. 3
   adv

   in a concentrated manner

4. 4
   adv

   in quick succession

5. 5
   adv

   with thickness

6. 6
   adv

   with a thick consistency

Etymology

From Middle English thikly; equivalent to thick + -ly.