thorough

adj

1. Painstaking and careful not to miss or omit any detail.

   “The Prime Minister announced a thorough investigation into the death of a father-of-two in police custody.”

   “Not enough! Your work has to be thorougher than this.”

   “It's the most thorough artwork I have ever seen!”

   “The infested house needs a thorough cleansing before being inhabitable again.”

2. Utter; complete; absolute.

   “Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.”

prep

1. (archaic)Through.

   “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?”

   “At length did cross an Albatross: / Thorough the fog it came; […]”

noun

1. (UK, dialectal)A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

   “The Ignorance and Idleness of the Plowman, who either goes so shallow, or plows his Thoroughs so wide, or misses Part of the Ground.”

name

1. (historical)A scheme devised in 17th-century England by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to establish absolute monarchy in England, involving the appointment of Arminian clergy.