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thoro

thoro is the nonstandard spelling of thorough.

Meaning of thorough

Adjective

thorough (comparative thorougher or more thorough, superlative thoroughest or most thorough)

  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.
    Synonyms:
    comprehensive
  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.1925–29, Mahatma Gandhi, “Shyness My Shield” (chapter XVIII), in Mahadev Desai, transl., The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I (Autobiography), Ahemadabad: Navajivan Mudranalaya, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    downright

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Forms of thoro

comparativethoroer
comparativemore thoro
superlativethoroest
superlativemost thoro
alternative formthorough

Words formed from thoro

Phrases with thoro

Questions about thoro

What is thoro the nonstandard spelling of?
Thoro is the nonstandard spelling of thorough.

Words near thoro in the dictionary

  1. thorny worms
  2. Thornycroft
  3. Thornycrofts
  4. thornyhead
  5. thornyheads
  6. thoro
  7. thorocene
  8. thoroer
  9. thoroest
  10. thorofare
  11. thorofares

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thoro (page history and authors); thorough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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