Definition/Meaning of thorough

• English - Adjective: thorough (comparative thorougher or more thorough, superlative thoroughest or most thorough) Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail . It's the most thorough artwork I have ever seen! Not enough! Your work has to be thorougher than this. Utter ; complete ; absolute . 1925–29, Mahatma Gandhi, “Shyness My Shield” (chapter XVIII), in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My…
• English - Preposition: thorough (archaic) Through . 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; […] 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in…
• English - Noun: thorough (plural thoroughs) (UK, dialectal) A furrow between two ridge s, 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.
• English - 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.
• English - Pronunciation: (British, Received Pronunciation, Southern, Standard) IPA: /ˈθʌɹə/ (Northern England) IPA: /ˈθʊɹə/ (Scotland, Wales) IPA: /ˈθʌɾə/ (General American) IPA: /ˈθʌɹoʊ/ (Canada, General American) IPA: /ˈθɝoʊ/ (South Asia) IPA: /t̪ʰəˈro/ , /ˈt̪ʰərə/ Rhymes: -ʌɹə Rhymes: -ʌɹəʊ