Thorough

Adjective

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) utter; complete; absolute
 * It is a thorough pleasure to see him beg for mercy.

Preposition

 * 1)  Through.
 * , II.xii:
 * Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry / Vnder the ship, as thorough them she went [...].

Thesaurus
absolute, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, all-out, all-pervading, arrant, assiduous, blow-by-blow, born, broad-based, canny, careful, cautious, chronic, circumspect, classical, clean, clear, complete, comprehensive, confirmed, congenital, conscientious, consummate, crass, decided, deep-dyed, deep-fixed, deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, definitive, deliberate, detailed, diligent, discreet, downright, dyed-in-the-wool, egregious, elaborate, encyclopedic, established, exhaustive, extensive, fast, full, full-dress, fully realized, gingerly, glaring, gross, guarded, heedful, hesitant, implanted, incorrigible, inculcated, industrious, infixed, ingrained, instilled, intensive, intolerable, inveterate, irreversible, itemized, judicious, leaving out nothing, long-established, methodical, meticulous, mindful, minute, noncommittal, omnibus, omnipresent, on guard, operose, out-and-out, outright, overlooking no possibility, painstaking, particular, particularized, pawky, perfect, pervasive, plain, plumb, polished, politic, positive, precious, profound, pronounced, proper, prudent, pure, radical, rank, regardful, regular, rooted, safe, scrupulous, sedulous, set, settled, settled in habit, shattering, sheer, shocking, slow to act, stark, stark-staring, straight, superlative, surpassing, sweeping, tentative, the veriest, thoroughgoing, through-and-through, total, ubiquitous, unadventurous, unalloyed, unbearable, uncommunicative, unconditional, unconscionable, undaring, undeniable, undiluted, unenterprising, unequivocal, universal, unmitigated, unmixed, unprecipitate, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, unrestricted, unspoiled, utter, veritable, wholesale

Etymology 1
þuruh:.

Alternative forms

 * thoro

Etymology 2
A disyllabic form of þurh:.

Adjective

 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 周密, 彻底, 完全
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: minutieux, -euse; soigné, -ée
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ítarlegur, ítarleg , ítarlegt
 * Italian: minuzioso, -a; accurato


 * Norwegian: grundig, grundige
 * Polish: gruntowny, -a, -e
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: тщательный (the only which can be said about man); исчерпывающий (about prolonged action, like speech), полный (full, complete), основательный (usually not about action; often about knowledge), всесторонний (about things touching different sides and aspects of the matter; literally = all-sided, compare with all-round)
 * Scottish Gaelic: pongail
 * Spanish: minucioso, -a
 * Vietnamese: hoàn toàn


 * Finnish: ,
 * French: exhaustif, -ive
 * Norwegian: grundig (1-5), nøyaktig (1-5), nøye (1)
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: законченный (finished) (about man), полный, совершенный (absolute); высший (about something that can change its power, like pleasure)
 * Spanish: exhaustivo, -a


 * : gedegen

Derived terms

 * thoroughbred
 * thoroughgoing
 * thoroughly