Thorough vs Throughly - What's the difference?
thorough | throughly |
painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail
utter; complete; absolute
(obsolete) Through.
* , II.xii:
* 1599 , , V. i. 109:
(UK, dialect) A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
Thoroughly, completely.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.7:
* c. 1610 , (William Shakespeare), , III.2:
* :
As an adjective thorough
is painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.As a preposition thorough
is through.As a noun thorough
is a furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.As an adverb throughly is
thoroughly, completely.thorough
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Alternative forms
* thoroAdjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- It is a thorough pleasure to see him beg for mercy.
Derived terms
* thoroughbred * thoroughgoing * thoroughlyEtymology 2
A disyllabic form of (etyl) .Preposition
(English prepositions)- Ye might haue seene the frothy billowes fry / Vnder the ship, as thorough them she went [...].
- You are contented to be led in triumph / Thorough the streets of Rome?
Noun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
throughly
English
Alternative forms
* thrulyAdverb
(en adverb)- The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.
- The next advantage / Will we take throughly .
- Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, / And cleanse me from my sin.