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Thoroughgoing

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Adjective

1. exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing

performed comprehensively and completely

Example Sentences:
'an exhaustive study'
'made a thorough search'
'thoroughgoing research'

2. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter

without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

Example Sentences:
'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 thoroughgoing villain'
'utter nonsense'
'the unadulterated truth'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Thoroughgoing

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adjective
1. 
extremely thorough
2. (usually prenominal)
absolute; complete
thoroughgoing incompetence

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Thoroughgoing

see synonyms of thoroughgoing
adjective
very thorough
; specif.,
a. 
precise and painstaking
b. 
being wholly such; unmitigated

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Thoroughgoing

see synonyms of thoroughgoing
adj.
1. Very thorough; complete: thoroughgoing research.
2. Unmitigated; unqualified: a thoroughgoing villain.

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