thoroughly

Adverb

Meaning

In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

good soundly exhaustively well plumb completely particularly fully dead quite extremely entirely closely exactly really

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Antonyms

about just little half comparatively almost

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Phrases with the word

thoroughly thought through not thoroughly search thoroughly check thoroughly clean thoroughly more thoroughly

Examples

The devil loves no one as much as drunkards, because no one fulfills his evil will as thoroughly as a drunkard. John Chrysostom

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Oscar Wilde

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. Eduard Shevardnadze

If you are going to bathe, get thoroughly wet. Malawi Proverb

If your friend is honey, don't lick him thoroughly. Tunisian Proverb

Without knowing a way thoroughly at day time, never attempt to pass it at night. Nigerian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

thoroughgoingly thoroughgoingness thoroughlane thoroughly assigned thoroughly reliable thoroughly safe