THOROUGHGOING

exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing

(adjective) performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial; “an exhaustive study”; “made a thorough search”; “thoroughgoing research”

complete, arrant(a), consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated

(adjective) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; “an arrant fool”; “a complete coward”; “a consummate fool”; “a double-dyed villain”; “gross negligence”; “a perfect idiot”; “pure folly”; “what a sodding mess”; “stark staring mad”; “a thorough nuisance”; “a thoroughgoing villain”; “utter nonsense”; “the unadulterated truth”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

thoroughgoing (comparative more thoroughgoing, superlative most thoroughgoing)

Complete; thorough; with great attention to detail.

Hypernyms

• going

Source: Wiktionary


Thor"ough*go`ing, a.

1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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