Dictionary Entry
Complete with all details; very careful and precise.
In a Sentence
“The student's thorough research paper covered all aspects of the topic with great depth and accuracy.”
Origin
From Middle English 'thurgh', related to Old English 'þurh' (through).
Common Phrases
Still being gathered for this entry.
Poetry examples for “thorough”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Mine eyes are heavy with love
And a sword gone thorough mine ears,
A sound like a sword and fire,
Read full poem →One thought lies close in her heart gnawn thorough
With pain, a weed in a dried-up river,
Read full poem →Find some one good in some one man;
So going thorough all your strain,
We shall, at last, of parcels make
Read full poem →My soul fleets[441] when I think what you have done,
And thorough[442] every vein doth cold blood run.
Then thee whom I must love, I hate in vain,
Read full poem →And the song choked within the nightingale.
A mild white furnace in the thorough blast
Of purest spirit seem'd She as she pass'd;
Read full poem →That so in you be joyful hope increas'd,
Thorough the Palace portals, and behold
The dainty and unsating Marriage-Feast.
Read full poem →The host swallowed another bumper, by way of denoting thorough
comprehension and acquiescence, and the visitor continued.
Read full poem →So thorough in the Tree
At night beneath the star
Read full poem →dling out,
Are earthworld, airworld, waterworld thorough hurled, all by
turn and turn about.
