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Throughly vs Efficiently - What's the difference?

throughly | efficiently |

As adverbs the difference between throughly and efficiently

is that throughly is thoroughly, completely while efficiently is in an efficient manner.

throughly

English

Alternative forms

* thruly

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • Thoroughly, completely.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.7:
    • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
  • * c. 1610 , (William Shakespeare), , III.2:
    • The next advantage / Will we take throughly .
  • * :
    • Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.

    efficiently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In an efficient manner.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative.}}