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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
- This was a thoroughgoing hatred of mankind, with a bonus for any woman who looked, spoke and treated people as Constance Kimble did. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
- 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.
- thoroughgoing research
- While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed.