thoroughly

English

Alternative forms

thorowly (obsolete)

Etymology

thorough +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
(US, hurry–furry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜɹ.ə.li/
Audio (US, California) (file)
(hurry–furry merger)

Adverb

thoroughly (comparative more thoroughly, superlative most thoroughly)

In a thorough or complete manner.
He went out in the rain and came back thoroughly drenched.

The editor looked thoroughly for any mistakes in the paper.

Synonyms

but good, in spades; see also Thesaurus:completely

Translations

in a thorough or complete manner

Bulgarian: напълно (bg) (napǎlno), съвсем (bg) (sǎvsem)
Catalan: completament (ca), exhaustivament
Czech: důkladně (cs)
Dutch: grondig (nl), volledig (nl), door en door (nl)
Esperanto: komplete
Finnish: perusteellisesti (fi), kauttaaltaan (fi), läpikotaisin (fi)
French: absolument (fr), complètement (fr)
German: gründlich (de), vollkommen (de), total (de), durch und durch (de)
Hungarian: alaposan (hu), tüzetesen
Ido: komplete (io)
Italian: completamente (it), totalmente (it), assolutamente (it)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: grundig (no)

Nynorsk: grundig
Plautdietsch: dichtich
Polish: doszczętnie (pl), gruntownie (pl)
Portuguese: a fundo, completamente (pt)
Russian: тща́тельно (ru) (tščátelʹno), основа́тельно (ru) (osnovátelʹno), доскона́льно (ru) (doskonálʹno), по́лностью (ru) (pólnostʹju), вполне́ (ru) (vpolné), соверше́нно (ru) (soveršénno), совсе́м (ru) (sovsém)
Spanish: cabalmente (es), a cabalidad, a fondo, detenidamente, completamente (es)
Ukrainian: цілкови́то (uk) (cilkovýto), пи́льно (pýlʹno), рете́льно (retélʹno), стара́нно (staránno)

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