thick texture

Heavy, substantial feel

Thick texture describes a dense, substantial quality in materials, sounds, or compositions.

In music, thick texture means many layers of sound happening simultaneously—multiple instruments or voices creating a rich, full sonic quality.

In visual arts and design, it suggests heavy, pronounced surface variation.

Food with thick texture feels dense and substantial in the mouth: The soup had a thick texture from the pureed vegetables.

The phrase often contrasts with thin or sparse texture.

Related

cream cheese · heavy · coarse · rough · grainy · lumpy · gloppy · oil paint · paste · cake batter · sludge · mud · stuck in mud · oatmeal · bread pudding · pudding · mortar · velvet

Opposites
viscosity/density

thick texturewatery

Containing excess liquid

runny · liquid · fluid · dilute · liquidy

surface feel

thick texturesilky

Smooth and lustrous

smooth texture · sleek · satiny · fine texture · delicate texture

weight/substantiality

thick texturelight texture

airy texture · thin · wispy · ethereal · insubstantial

Family

thick, texture, thicken, thickly, thickness, thicker, thickest, thickening, textural

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Top 500,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G