thorough
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
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!
Utter
Utter; complete; absolute.
- 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.
Through.
- Ye might haue ſeene the frothy billowes fry Vnder the ſhip, as thorough them ſhe went […]
- You are contented to be led in triumph Thorough the streets of Rome?
- At length did cross an Albatross: / Thorough the fog it came; […]
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A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
- The Ignorance and Idleness of the Plowman, who either goes so shallow, or plows his Thoroughs so wide, or misses Part of the Ground.
A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to…
A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to establish absolute monarchy in England, involving the appointment of Arminian clergy.
The neighborhood
- synonymrigorous
- synonymscrupulous
- synonymmeticulous
- synonymcomprehensive
- synonymoutright
- synonymunmitigated
- synonymtotal
- antonymcursoryantonym(s) of “not detailed”
- antonymsuperficialantonym(s) of “not detailed”
- antonymsurface-levelantonym(s) of “not detailed”
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at thorough. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at thorough. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at thorough
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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