thoroughly

English

Alternative forms

• thorowly (obsolete)

Etymology

From thorough +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌɹ.ə.li/
• (US, hurry–furry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈθɜɹ.ə.li/

  • Audio (California, hurry–furry merger):

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /t̪ʰəˈroli/, /ˈt̪ʰərəli/

Adverb

thoroughly (comparative more thoroughly, superlative most thoroughly)

1. 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.

   • 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 June 2025:

     Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.

Synonyms

• but good, in spades; see also Thesaurus:completely

Translations

in a thorough or complete manner — see also meticulously,‎ minutiously,‎ in-depth,‎ completely,‎ conscientiously,‎ in extenso

• 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)
• Galician: completamente (gl), a fondo
• 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

• Old English: deoplice
• 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, detenidamente, a rajatabla (es), al cabal
• Turkish: enine boyuna (tr)
• Ukrainian: цілкови́то (uk) (cilkovýto), пи́льно (pýlʹno), рете́льно (retélʹno), стара́нно (staránno)
• Uzbek: yaxshilab (uz)