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thorough adjective [ ˈθʌrə ]

• complete with regard to every detail; not superficial or partial.
• "planners need a thorough understanding of the subject"
Similar: rigorous, in-depth, exhaustive, thoroughgoing, minute, detailed, close, meticulous, scrupulous, assiduous, conscientious, painstaking, methodical, careful, sedulous, complete, comprehensive, elaborate, full, intensive, extensive, widespread, sweeping, searching, all-embracing, all-inclusive,
Opposite: superficial, cursory, partial,
Origin: Old English thuruh, alteration of thurh ‘through’. Original use was as an adverb and preposition, in senses of through . The adjective dates from the late 15th century, when it also had the sense ‘that goes or extends through something’, surviving in thoroughfare .


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