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thruly

thruly is the nonstandard spelling of throughly.

Meaning of throughly

Adverb

throughly (comparative more throughly, superlative most throughly)

  1. (archaic) Thoroughly, completely.
    • The whiles he steru'd with hunger and with drouth / He daily dyde, yet neuer throughly dyen couth.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of thruly

comparativemore thruly
superlativemost thruly

Origin of thruly

From thru + -ly.

Questions about thruly

What is thruly the nonstandard spelling of?
Thruly is the nonstandard spelling of throughly.

Words near thruly in the dictionary

  1. thru-hiking
  2. thru-hole technology
  3. Thrudvang
  4. thrue
  5. thruff
  6. thruly
  7. thrum
  8. thrum-eyed
  9. thrumb
  10. thrumbs
  11. thrummed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thruly (page history and authors); throughly (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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