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

Slightly west, Sultan-Epe lies beside a deep canyon, where a stream threads through thickets of mulberry, buckthorn, blackberry, and wild herbs—another improbable pocket of green in one of Kazakhstan’s driest regions. — Avantika Chaturvedi, Architectural Digest, 5 Nov. 2026

The original computers were essentially thickets of light bulbs. — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

Phragmites form dense thickets in or near shallow water and displace native wetland plants. — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2026

Finally the buck turned, bounded up on top of the bank, still in thickets where no arrow could get through, and started to walk around my tree. — Al Dawson, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026

Cue an enthralling chase sequence, doubling back through those higgledy-piggledy Portland streetscapes, toward the woods — the impenetrable thickets and thorns of which magically part in her presence. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

Wartime tunnels and bunkers Before 1965, Vịnh Mốc was a tranquil fishing village in central Vietnam, with a lush landscape of rice paddies, bamboo thickets and golden beaches. — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 26 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