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/θˈʌɹəɡˌəʊɪŋ/
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ADJECTIVE
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performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial
thoroughgoing research
an exhaustive study
made a thorough search -
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
a perfect idiot
what a sodding mess
pure folly
the unadulterated truth
stark staring mad
a consummate fool
gross negligence
an arrant fool
a complete coward
a double-dyed villain
a thorough nuisance
How To Use thoroughgoing In A Sentence
- So elusive seems this innocence, so thoroughgoing our saturation in the technological, the calculative, and the instrumental, that we may be tempted to adopt an antithetical conception of human nature, as violent, chaotic, and amoral.
- thoroughgoing research
- A thoroughgoing rogue named Duke Feribor, who has some distant claim to the crown of Cathra. IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
- Researchers tend to be concerned with substantive issues and are less than enthusiastic about engaging in the kind of development work that would be required for a thoroughgoing determination of measurement quality.
- The options for dealing with so thoroughgoing a tyranny were pathetically limited.
- His thoroughgoing Puritanism meant that he constantly subjected himself to self-examination.
- Aristotle was a thoroughgoing ‘empiricist’ in two senses of that slippery term.
- He will simply not countenance further funding increases without thoroughgoing changes in the balance between state and private school educated undergraduates.
- Then, if ever, was a signal opportunity to lay the groundwork for a genuinely thoroughgoing reform in keeping with the complementary ideas of free enterprise and equal access to natural opportunity.
- While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed.