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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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industrious
English
Etymology
From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?d?st?i.?s/
Adjective
industrious (comparative more industrious, superlative most industrious)
- Hard-working and persistent.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:industrious
Antonyms
- lazy
Derived terms
- industriousness
Related terms
- industrial
- industry
- industriousness
Translations
Further reading
- industrious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- industrious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- industrious at OneLook Dictionary Search
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