thicket

Meanings

• Noun

  A dense growth of bushes and small trees.

  - "The hikers became lost in the thicket."
  - "The rabbit made its nest in the thicket."

• Noun

  A difficult or complex situation.

  - "Navigating through the political thicket was a challenge."
  - "The salesman found himself in a thicket of objections."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with thicket
hickory , prickly , icky , slickly

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Variants

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thicket , thickets , thickety , Big Thicket

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Etymology

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Old English 'thic', dense; related to 'thick'.

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Trivia

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1. The thicket is often used as a metaphor for a complex or difficult situation.

2. The thicket is also the name of a character in the children's book 'The Velveteen Rabbit'.

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Related Concepts

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1. forest: A thicket is a type of forest, characterized by its dense growth of bushes and small trees.

2. thorny: A thicket is often described as thorny, meaning it has many sharp thorns.

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Culture

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In literature, thickets are often used to represent danger, mystery, or wildness. For example, in 'Robin Hood', the Merry Men hide in a thicket, and in 'Hansel and Gretel', the children are lost in a thicket before finding their way to the gingerbread house.

How to Memorize "thicket"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a dense, tangled mass of bushes and trees. Visualize yourself trying to navigate through it.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'thicket' with the words 'dense', 'tangled', and 'wild'.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Think of the word 'thicket' as a 'thorny kit'.

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