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thoroughsped

thoroughsped adjective: fully accomplished.

Adjective

thoroughsped (comparative more thoroughsped, superlative most thoroughsped)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Fully accomplished.
    • Our thoroughsped republick of whigs, which contains the bulk of all hopers, pretenders, expecters, and professors, are beyond all doubt most highly useful to princes, to governors, to great ministers, and to their country1730, Jonathan Swift, A Vindication of Lord Carteret
    • Never upon me / Had she thrown look of love so thoroughsped!1898, Thomas Hardy, “The Burghers”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 58

Forms of thoroughsped

comparativemore thoroughsped
superlativemost thoroughsped
alternative formthrough sped
alternative formthorough-sped

Origin of thoroughsped

From thorough + sped.

Questions about thoroughsped

What does thoroughsped mean?
Thoroughsped means fully accomplished.
What part of speech is thoroughsped?
Thoroughsped is an adjective.

Words near thoroughsped in the dictionary

  1. thoroughpass
  2. thoroughpasses
  3. thoroughpin
  4. thoroughpins
  5. thoroughs
  6. thoroughsped
  7. thoroughstitch
  8. thoroughwax
  9. thoroughway
  10. thoroughways
  11. thoroughwort

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