thorough Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite painstakingly careful and accurate
    • our accountant is thorough
    • thorough research
  2. adjective satellite performed comprehensively and completely
    exhaustive; thoroughgoing.
    • an exhaustive study
    • made a thorough search
    • thoroughgoing research

WordNet

Thor"ough preposition
Etymology
See Through.
Definitions
  1. Through. Obs. Spenser. Shak.
Thor"ough adjective
Definitions
  1. Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. Obs.
  2. Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.
Thor"ough adverb
Definitions
  1. Thoroughly. Obs. or Colloq. Chaucer.
  2. Through. Obs. Shak.
Thor"ough noun
Definitions
  1. A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. Prov. Eng. Halliwell.

Webster 1913