thorough

See also: 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

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(Received Pronunciation , Standard Southern British ) IPA ^(key): /ˈθʌɹə/
- Audio (Southern England ): (file)
(Northern England ) IPA ^(key): /ˈθʊɹə/
(Scotland , Wales ) IPA ^(key): /ˈθʌɾə/
(General American ) IPA ^(key): /ˈθʌɹoʊ/
- Audio (US , without the hurry–furry merger ): (file)
(General American , Canada ) IPA ^(key): /ˈθɝoʊ/
- Audio (US , hurry–furry merger ): (file)
(South Asia ) IPA ^(key): /t̪həˈro/, /ˈt̪hərə/
Rhymes: -ʌɹə, -ʌɹəʊ

Adjective

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thorough (comparative thorougher or more thorough, superlative thoroughest or 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.

Not enough! Your work has to be thorougher than this.

It's the most thorough artwork I have ever seen!

The infested house needs a thorough cleansing before being inhabitable again.
Utter; complete; absolute.
- 1925–29, Mahatma Gandhi, "Shyness My Shield" (chapter XVIII), in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth , Part I (Autobiography), Ahemadabad: Navajivan Mudranalaya, →ISBN:
  Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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(antonym(s) of "not detailed"): cursory , superficial , surface-level

Derived terms

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Translations

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detailed — see also conscientious,‎ exhaustive,‎ comprehensive,‎ minutious,‎ meticulous,‎ in-depth,‎ deep,‎ rigorous

Arabic: مُفَصَل m (mufaṣal)
Egyptian Arabic: مفصل m (mufaṣal)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: (of attention to detail) পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ (bn) (puṅkhanupuṅkho)
Bulgarian: щателен (bg) (štatelen)
Catalan: minuciós (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 周密 (zh) (zhōumì), 彻底 (zh) (chèdǐ), 完全 (zh) (wánquán), 深入 (zh) (shēnrù), 一絲不苟 / 一丝不苟 (zh) (yīsībùgǒu), 細緻入微 / 细致入微 (xìzhì rùwēi)
Czech: důkladný (cs)
Danish: grundig , nøje
Dutch: grondig (nl) , diepgaand (nl)
Esperanto: ĝisfunda (eo)
Finnish: huolellinen (fi) , perinpohjainen (fi) , perusteellinen (fi) , läpikotainen
French: minutieux (fr) , soigné (fr)
Galician: minucioso (gl) , rigoroso (gl) , detallado
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: gründlich (de)
Greek: διεξοδικός (el) (diexodikós)
Hindi: विस्तृत (hi) (vistŕt), व्यापक (hi) (vyāpak)
Hungarian: alapos (hu) , beható (hu) , mélyreható (hu)
Icelandic: ítarlegur (is)
Irish: críochnúil
Italian: minuzioso (it) , accurato (it) , dettagliato (it)
Japanese: 徹底的な (てっていてきな,Tetteitekina), 徹底的な (tetteitekina)
Khmer: ហ្មត់ចត់ (km) (mɑtcɑt)
Māori: tōtōpū , ngaio
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grundig (no)

Nynorsk: grundig
Old English: deoplic
Polish: gruntowny (pl)
Portuguese: minucioso (pt) , rigoroso (pt) , detalhado (pt) , cabal (pt)
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: detallista (es) , esmerado (es) , circunstanciado (es) , cabal (es)
Swedish: grundlig (sv) , utförlig (sv) , noggrann (sv)
Thai: ละเอียด (th) (lá-ìiat), ถี่ถ้วน (th) , ละเอียดถี่ถ้วน
Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)

utter; complete; absolute

Arabic: شَامِل m (šāmil)
Egyptian Arabic: شامل m (šāmel)
Bulgarian: пълен (bg) (pălen), съвършен (bg) (săvăršen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 徹底 / 彻底 (zh) (chèdǐ), 完全 (zh) (wánquán)
Danish: grundig , fuldstændig
Finnish: perinpohjainen (fi) , perusteellinen (fi) , läpikotainen
French: exhaustif (fr)
Galician: exhaustivo
Hindi: विस्तृत (hi) (vistŕt), संपूर्ण (hi) (sampūrṇ)
Italian: totale (it) , completo (it)
Norwegian: grundig (no) (1-5), nøyaktig (no) (1-5), nøye (1)
Polish: gruntowny (pl)
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)
Swedish: fullständig (sv)

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Translations to be checked

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

Preposition

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thorough

(archaic ) Through. [9th–19th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, "Book II, Canto XII", in The Faerie Queene. [...] , London: [...] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry
  Vnder the ship, as thorough them she went [...]
- 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, "The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 109:
  You are contented to be led in triumph
  Thorough the streets of Rome?
- 1797–1798 (date written; revised 1817), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts.", in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, [...], published 1817, →OCLC, page 6:
  At length did cross an Albatross: / Thorough the fog it came; [...]

Noun

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thorough (plural thoroughs )

(UK , dialect ) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
- 1733, William Ellis, Chiltern And Vale Farming Explained:
  The Ignorance and Idleness of the Plowman, who either goes so shallow, or plows his Thoroughs so wide, or misses Part of the Ground.

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