Thorough

Thor′ough

,

p

rep.

[See

Through

.]

Through.

[Obs.]

Spenser. Shak.

Thor′ough

,

Adj.

1.

Passing through;

as,

thorough

lights in a house

.

[Obs.]

2.

Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect;

as, a

thorough

reformation;

thorough

work; a

thorough

translator; a

thorough

poet

.

Thor′ough

,

adv.

1.

Thoroughly.

[Obs. or Colloq.]

Chaucer.

2.

Through.

[Obs.]

Shak.

Thor′ough

,

Noun.

A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

[Prov. Eng.]

Halliwell.

Thorough

THOROUGH

,

Adj.

thur'ro.

1.

Literally, passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.

2.

Passing through; as thorough lights in a house.

THOROUGH

, prep. thur'ro. From side to side, or from end to end.

1.

By means of. [Not now used.] [See Through.]

THOROUGH

,

Noun.

thur'ro. An inter-furrow between two ridges.

thorough

English

Alternative forms

thoro

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.

Translations

detailed

Arabic: مُفَصَل m ‎(mufaṣal)
Egyptian Arabic: مفصل m ‎(mufaṣal)
Armenian:
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 m
Dutch: grondig (nl), diepgaand (nl)
Esperanto:
Finnish: huolellinen, perinpohjainen (fi), perusteellinen (fi), läpikotainen
French: minutieux (fr) m, minutieuse (fr) f, soigné (fr) m, soignée (fr) f
Georgian:
German: gründlich (de)
Hungarian: alapos (hu)

Icelandic: ítarlegur (is) m
Italian: minuzioso (it) m, accurato (it) m
Khmer:
Maori: tōtōpū, ngaio
Mongolian:
Norwegian:

Bokmål: grundig

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:
Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)

utter; complete; absolute

Arabic: شَامِل m ‎(šāmil)
Egyptian Arabic: شامل m ‎(šaamel)
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: законченный (finished) (about man), полный, совершенный (absolute); высший (about something that can change its power, like pleasure)
Spanish: exhaustivo (es)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

A disyllabic form of Old English þurh ‎(“through”).

Preposition

thorough

(obsolete) Through. [9th-19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.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, dialect) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
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