Thorough

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Exhaustively complete: a thorough search.
  • adj. Painstakingly accurate or careful: thorough research.
  • adj. Absolute; utter: a thorough pleasure.
  • preposition. Archaic Variant of through.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail
  • adj. utter; complete; absolute
  • n. A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • preposition. Through.
  • adj. Passing through.
  • adj. Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect.
  • ad. Thoroughly.
  • ad. Through.
  • n. A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Through. See through, a later form of thorough, now the exclusive form as a preposition and adverb.
  • Through: as, thoroughgoing. See through, adverb
  • Going through; through, in a literal sense: a form now occurring only in dialectal use or in certain phrases and compounds. See through, adjective
  • Going through, as to the end or bottom of anything; thoroughgoing.
  • Leaving nothing undone; slighting nothing; not superficial.
  • Fully executed; having no deficiencies; hence, complete in all respects; unqualified; perfect.
  • Earnest; ardent. [Rare.]
  • n. That which goes through.
  • n. A furrow between two ridges.
  • n. Same as perpend.
  • n. In Brit. hist., in the reign of Charles I., the policy of Strafford and Laud of conducting or carrying through (‘thorough’) the administration of public affairs without regard to obstacles. Hence the word is associated with their system of tyranny.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. painstakingly careful and accurate
  • adj. performed comprehensively and completely
  • Equivalent
    careful    complete   
    Antonym
    negligent    incomplete    partial   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    through    perfect    thoroughly    complete    absolute    unqualified    straight-out    regular    ingrained    out-and-out   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chamorro    Sapporo    boro    burro    burrough    burrow    furrow    loro    morro    morrow   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    careful    practical    complete    honest    systematic    extensive