thorough
Speech parts
1. thorough - Noun
2. thorough - Adjective
3. thorough - Preposition
5. thorough - Adjective Satellite
6. Thorough - Proper noun
Meaning
Through.
Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house.
Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.
Thoroughly.
A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.
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Examples
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say 'This is my country.'
I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.