THOUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does though mean? 

• THOUGH (adverb)
  The adverb THOUGH has 1 sense:

1. (postpositive) however

  Familiarity information: THOUGH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THOUGH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(postpositive) however

Context example:

it might be unpleasant, though

 Context examples 

Teeth are rarely present though hair is not uncommon.

(Central Nervous System Dermoid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

Even though the exact target has not been fully elucidated, BBI503 targets and inhibits one or more pathways involved in cancer stem cell survival.

(Cancer Stemness Kinase Inhibitor BBI503, NCI Thesaurus)

It kills cancer cells that may be in the brain and spinal cord, even though no cancer has been detected there.

(Central nervous system prophylaxis, NCI Dictionary)

The friends from whom she had just parted, though very good sort of people, must be doing her harm.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Holmes waved away the compliment, though his smile showed that it had pleased him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even though the exact target has yet to be fully elucidated, BBI608 appears to target and inhibit multiple pathways involved in cancer cell stemness.

(Cancer Stemness Inhibitor BBI608, NCI Thesaurus)

I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"I've been in here two years, though."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

His brain was just as full of knowledge as theirs, though it was a different kind of knowledge.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then through the darkness I could see a sort of patch of grey light ahead of us, as though there were a cleft in the hills.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)