Synonyms of thickets

thickets

noun

plural of thicket

as in bushes

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush

flushed a pheasant from a thicket of willows

Synonyms & Similar Words

• bushes
• copses
• groves
• forests
• woods
• coppices
• jungles
• brakes
• tangles
• woodlands
• coverts
• bosquets
• brambles
• boscages
• bosks
• hedges
• scrublands
• chaparrals
• brushwoods
• brushes
• scrubs
• canebrakes
• woodlots
• stands
• wildwoods
• greenwoods

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of thickets

Elk prefer thickets and blowdowns, especially where dense spruce trees grow. — Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Adjacent are two thickets of papalo, an herb popular in Mexico but little known elsewhere. — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2026

The retaliation works, and soon Cole and his men are marching on foot, scrabbling their way through thickets and swamps. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Across the street, the Llano River splashes its way over limestone formations and into reed thickets. — Pam Leblanc, Southern Living, 20 July 2026

These traits alone don’t make this tree invasive, but the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat. — Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026

By Todd Woody, Bloomberg On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 July 2026

Only a depression in the ground remains at the Ingalls Dugout Site, but eagle-eyed visitors can still spot the spring, tablelands, thickets of plum trees, and other landmarksr described in the book of the same name. — Alicia Underlee Nelson, Midwest Living, 22 June 2026

Tony Kushner's screenplay turns the thickets of policymaking into a righteous sort of poetry. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 13 June 2026