thorough

English

Alternative forms

thoro (informal)

Etymology

From Middle English thoruȝ, þoruȝ, from Old English þuruh, a byform of Old English þurh, whence comes English through. The adjective derives from the preposition and adverb. The word developed a syllabic form in cases where the word was fully stressed: when it was used as an adverb, adjective, or noun, and less commonly when used as a preposition.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌ.ɹə/, /ˈθʌɹəʊ/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌ.ɹoʊ/, /ˈθɝ.oʊ/
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Rhymes: -ʌrə

Adjective

thorough (comparative more thorough, superlative most thorough)

Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.
The Prime Minister announced a thorough investigation into the death of a father of two in police custody.

He is the most thorough worker I have ever seen.

The infested house needs a thorough cleansing before it will be inhabitable.
Utter; complete; absolute.
It is a thorough pleasure to see him beg for mercy.

Synonyms

(detailed): comprehensive, rigorous, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous or Thesaurus:comprehensive
(utter; complete; absolute): downright, outright, unmitigated; see also Thesaurus:total

Derived terms

Translations

detailed

Arabic: مُفَصَل‎ m (mufaṣal)
Egyptian Arabic: مفصل‎ m (mufaṣal)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: (of attention to detail) পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ (puṅkhanupuṅkh)
Catalan: minuciós (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 周密 (zh) (zhōumì), 彻底 (zh) (chèdǐ), 完全 (zh) (wánquán), 深入 (zh) (shēnrù)
Czech: důkladný (cs) m
Dutch: grondig (nl), diepgaand (nl)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: huolellinen (fi), perinpohjainen (fi), perusteellinen (fi), läpikotainen
French: minutieux (fr) m, minutieuse (fr) f, soigné (fr) m, soignée (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: gründlich (de)
Hungarian: alapos (hu)
Icelandic: ítarlegur (is) m
Italian: minuzioso (it) m, accurato (it) m, dettagliato (it)

Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Maori: tōtōpū, ngaio
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grundig (no)

Nynorsk: grundig
Polish: gruntowny (pl) m
Portuguese: minucioso (pt) m, rigoroso (pt) m, detalhada
Romanian: minuțios (ro), amănunțit (ro)
Russian: тща́тельный (ru) (tščátelʹnyj), доскона́льный (ru) (doskonálʹnyj), основа́тельный (ru) (osnovátelʹnyj), (of a report, answer) исче́рпывающий (ru) (isčérpyvajuščij), (complete) по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), всесторо́нний (ru) (vsestorónnij)
Scots: thora, thorae
Scottish Gaelic: pongail
Spanish: minucioso (es)
Swedish: grundlig (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)

utter; complete; absolute

Arabic: شَامِل‎ m (šāmil)
Egyptian Arabic: شامل‎ m (šāmel)
Finnish: perinpohjainen (fi), perusteellinen (fi), läpikotainen
French: exhaustif (fr), -ive
Italian: totale (it), completo (it)

Norwegian: grundig (1-5), nøyaktig (1-5), nøye (1)
Portuguese: exaustivo (pt) m
Russian: зако́нченный (ru) (zakónčennyj) (finished) (about man), по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), соверше́нный (ru) (soveršénnyj) (absolute); вы́сший (ru) (výsšij) (about something that can change its power, like pleasure)
Spanish: exhaustivo (es)

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Dutch: ^{(please verify)} gedegen (nl)

Preposition

thorough

(obsolete) Through. [9th-19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:
  Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry / Vnder the ship, as thorough them she went […]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 109:
  You are contented to be led in triumph / Thorough the streets of Rome?

Noun

thorough (plural thoroughs)

(Britain, dialectal) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
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