thoroughly

thoroughly

English

Etymology

thorough +‎ -ly

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /θʌ.ɹə.liː/
• (US) IPA^(key): /θɜːɹ.ə.lɪ/ (accents with the hurry–furry merger)

• Audio (US-California)

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  (accents with the hurry–furry merger)

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

in a thorough or complete manner

Catalan: completament (ca), exhaustivament Czech: důkladně Finnish: perusteellisesti (fi), kauttaaltaan (fi), läpikotaisin (fi) French: absolument (fr), complètement (fr) German: gründlich (de), vollkommen (de), total (de) Hungarian: alaposan (hu), tüzetesen Italian: completamente (it), totalmente (it), assolutamente (it)

Norwegian: Bokmål: grundig (no) Nynorsk: grundig 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, a cabalidad, a fondo, detenidamente, completamente (es)