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[ adjective ] very thorough; exhaustively complete
Synonyms Examples "an exhaustive study" "made a thorough search" "thoroughgoing research" Used in print (John F. Hayward, "Mimesis and Symbol in the Arts"...)And although these insights into the nature of art may be in themselves insufficient for a thoroughgoing philosophy of art , their peculiar authenticity in this day and age requires that they be taken seriously and gives promise that from their very substance , new and valid chapters in the philosophy of art may be written . (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)The thoroughgoing idealization of the planter society did not come , however , until after the Civil_War when Southern writers were eager to defend a way_of_life which had been destroyed . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Examples "an arrant fool" "a complete coward" "a consummate fool" "gross negligence" "a perfect idiot" "pure folly" "what a sodding mess" "stark staring mad" "utter nonsense" Related terms |
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