1
[ adjective ] very thorough; exhaustively complete

Synonyms

thorough exhaustive

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

complete

2
[ 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

unmitigated

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