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English
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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
Adjective
thorough (comparative thorougher, superlative thoroughest)
- 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.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xviii:
- I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. 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. And it was not a little curious that whilst others expressed their opinions at these meetings, I sat quite silent. Not that I never felt tempted to speak. But I was at a loss to know how to express myself. All the rest of the members appeared to me to be better informed than I. Then it often happened that just when I had mustered up courage to speak, a fresh subject would be started. This went on for a long time.
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- 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)
- 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)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: gründlich (de)
- Hungarian: alapos (hu), beható (hu), mélyreható (hu)
- Icelandic: ítarlegur (is)
- Italian: minuzioso (it), accurato (it), dettagliato (it)
- Khmer: ហ្មត់ចត់ (km) (mɑtcɑt)
- Maori: tōtōpū, ngaio
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: grundig (no)
- Nynorsk: grundig
- Polish: gruntowny (pl)
- Portuguese: minucioso (pt), rigoroso (pt), detalhado (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: minucioso (es)
- Swedish: grundlig (sv), utförlig (sv)
- Thai: ละเอียด (th) (lá-ìiat)
- Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi)
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utter; complete; absolute
- Arabic: شَامِل m (šāmil)
- Egyptian Arabic: شامل m (šāmel)
- Bulgarian: пълен (bg) (pǎlen), съвършен (bg) (sǎvǎršen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: grundig, fuldstændig
- Finnish: perinpohjainen (fi), perusteellinen (fi), läpikotainen
- French: exhaustif (fr)
- Italian: totale (it), completo (it)
- Norwegian: grundig (no) (1-5), nøyaktig (no) (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)
- Swedish: fullständig (sv)
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Preposition
thorough
- (obsolete) Through.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , line 109:You are contented to be led in triumph
Thorough the streets of Rome?
Noun
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.