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Can you be more thorough or is thorough an absolute?

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Someone might object to "more thorough" on the grounds that thoroughness implies completeness. In the real world, though, both "complete" and "thorough" are sometimes relative attributes and thus capable of being characterized as more or less.

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Who is thorough?
He is actually Henry David Thoreau, a transcendentalist writer who spent time in Walden woods getting back to nature.
What does thorough mean?
it means not to miss a bit it means not to miss a bit
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The word that is the exact opposite of "thorough" is "perfunctory". Dictionaries define "perfunctory" as, done routinely and with little interest or care: performed merely as a routine duty; hasty...
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