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unthorough

unthorough adjective: not thorough.

Adjective

unthorough (comparative more unthorough, superlative most unthorough)

  1. Not thorough.
    • I did an unthorough patrol of the area, skipping both the cul-de-sac and the lane where the Piras lived.2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 299

Forms of unthorough

comparativemore unthorough
superlativemost unthorough

Origin of unthorough

From un- + thorough.

Words formed from unthorough

Questions about unthorough

What does unthorough mean?
Unthorough means not thorough.
What part of speech is unthorough?
Unthorough is an adjective.

Words near unthorough in the dictionary

  1. unthinning
  2. unthirsting
  3. unthirsty
  4. unthonged
  5. unthorny
  6. unthorough
  7. unthoroughly
  8. unthoroughness
  9. unthought
  10. unthought-of
  11. unthoughted

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