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thorough
English
Alternative forms
- thoro (informal)
Etymology
From Middle English thoru?, þoru?, 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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?????/, /??????/
- (General American) IPA(key): /????o?/, /????o?/
- (accents without the hurry–furry merger)
- (accents with the hurry–furry merger)
- Rhymes: -?r?
Adjective
thorough (comparative more thorough, superlative most thorough)
- 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[1]:
- 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.
- 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xviii[1]:
Synonyms
- (detailed): comprehensive, rigorous, scrupulous; see also Thesaurus:meticulous or Thesaurus:comprehensive
- (utter; complete; absolute): downright, outright, unmitigated; see also Thesaurus:total
Derived terms
- thoroughbred
- thoroughgoing
- thoroughly
- thoroughness
Translations
Preposition
thorough
- (obsolete) Through. [9th-19th c.]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 109:
- You are contented to be led in triumph / Thorough the streets of Rome?
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, V. i. 109:
Noun
thorough (plural thoroughs)
- (Britain, dialect) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
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zestful
English
Etymology
zest +? -ful
Adjective
zestful (comparative more zestful, superlative most zestful)
- Having a spirited love of life; ebullient.
- 1957, Arthur Upfield, Bony Buys a Woman, London: Heinemann, 1967, Chapter 13, p. 117,[1]
- Debonair youth! The spurs, the wide felt hat, the open shirt, the belt holding the array of small pouches, including a holstered revolver, the delight in the long stock-whip having a bright green silk cracker to produce loud reports, ranging from slow rifle fire to the rat-tat-tat of a machine-gun, all told the story of zestful youth.
- 1957, Arthur Upfield, Bony Buys a Woman, London: Heinemann, 1967, Chapter 13, p. 117,[1]
- Eager, enthusiastic.
- 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935, Book 1, § 10, p. 77,[2]
- […] there appeared a narrowly patriotic government, which presently developed into an aggressive, vindictive and pitiless dictatorship, and set itself at once to the zestful persecution of the unfortunate ethnic minorities […]
- 1968, Donald Barthelme, “The Dolt” in Sixty Stories, New York: Dutton, 1982, p. 94,[3]
- […] the former priest, by now habituated to military life, and even zestful for it, enlisted under the new young king, with the rank of captain.
- 1933, H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1935, Book 1, § 10, p. 77,[2]
Derived terms
- zestfully
- zestfulness
Translations
Anagrams
- Fultzes, Zufelts
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