"thoroughly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

thoroughly adverbio

verbo + thoroughly
Kolokacji: 151
thoroughly enjoy • thoroughly investigated • thoroughly examined • thoroughly understand • thoroughly cleaned • thoroughly searched • ...
thoroughly + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 56
thoroughly modern • thoroughly familiar • thoroughly enjoyable • thoroughly miserable • thoroughly professional • ...
(4) miserable, comfortable
Kolokacji: 2
(8) ashamed, embarrassed
Kolokacji: 2
(12) charming, engaging, delightful
Kolokacji: 3
(13) unremarkable, useless
Kolokacji: 2
2. thoroughly useless = zupełnie nieprzydatny thoroughly useless
  • A thoroughly useless item it was, and I asked the other Irishman working there that day, an older fellow named McCabe, why they were stealing such a thing.
  • 'I'm afraid my cooking doesn't extend to much more than scrambled eggs or sardines on toast,' said Julia, feeling thoroughly useless.
  • They kept their arms extended, a proper style for defending against Pikel's wide-armed club swings, but thoroughly useless against Ivan's sheer ferocity.
  • We had been allowed to write down details during the case, and these notes, along with some thoroughly useless "evidence" (e.g., the photo of the door), was all we could use to reach a verdict.
  • "A thoroughly useless form, at least to us."
  • Thoroughly useless mind-rotting garbage, I assure you--exactly what kids like.
  • Nonetheless, our last day in Prague was filled with fears of being arrested at the border - or, at the very least, forced to buy a couple of hundred dollars worth of thoroughly useless crowns.
  • He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing, but he did have a talent for baking.
  • She still considered them thoroughly useless for anything except looking ornamental, but she'd been forced to admit that looking ornamental wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
  • It had never received a name to replace its catalog designation because the thoroughly useless red giant had absolutely nothing, not even any planets, to attract anyone to it.
(14) reliable, irresponsible
Kolokacji: 2

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