though

Despite the fact that; although.

Adverb

  1. Despite that; however.
    • I'm not paid to do all this paperwork for you. I will do it this once, though.
    • Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine.[…]One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing...
  2. Used to intensify statements or questions; indeed.
    • "Man, it's hot in here." — "Isn't it, though?"

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *to-der. Proto-Indo-European *-weder. Proto-Germanic *þau Proto-Indo-European *-kʷeder. Proto-Germanic *-hw Proto-Germanic *þauh Proto-West Germanic *þauh Old English þēah ▲ Proto-Germanic *þauh Old Norse *þóhder. Middle English thogh English though From Middle English though, thogh, from Old Norse *þóh (later þó). Superseded (in most dialects) Middle English thegh, from Old English þēah (“though, although, even if, that, however, nevertheless, yet, still; whether”). Both the Old Norse and Old English are from Proto-Germanic *þauh (“though”), from Proto-Indo-European *to-, suffixed with Proto-Germanic *-hw < Proto-Indo-European *-kʷe (“and”). Akin to Scots tho (“though”), Saterland Frisian dach (“though”), West Frisian dôch, dochs (“though”), Dutch doch (“though”), German doch (“though”), Danish dog (“though, however”), Swedish dock (“however, still”),...

Forms

tho tho’ thô thogh thot thou

Synonyms

all the same anyhow anyway even so in any case nevertheless nonetheless still yet

Conjunction

  1. Despite the fact that; although.
    • Though it is risky, it is worth taking the chance.
    • Astute businessman though he was, my brother was capable of extreme recklessness.
    • Actual perpetrators though they were, the criminals never admitted it in court.
  2. If, that, even if.
    • We shall be not sorry though the man die tonight.
    • And hee said vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded, though one rose from the dead. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC,...
    • "Though we called your friend from his bed this night, he could not speak for you, / "For the race is run by one and one and never by two and two." - 1919, Rudyard Kipling, Tomlinson:

Forms

tho tho’ thô thogh thot thou

Synonyms

although even though

Derived

although even though though but though I say it who should not though I say it who should not say it though I say so myself welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk what though

Verb

  1. Misspelling of thought.

Forms

tho tho’ thô thogh thot thou