most thoroughgoing

ADJECTIVE

exhaustive

Synonyms

WEAK

absolute all the way all-embracing all-inclusive all-out assiduous blow-by-blow careful circumstantial clocklike complete comprehensive conscientious detailed efficient exact from A to Z full full-dress in-depth intensive itemized meticulous minute painstaking particular particularized plenty royal scrupulous slam-bang soup to nuts sweeping tough whole-hog

Antonyms

WEAK

deficient imperfect inadequate incomplete inexhaustive partial superficial unfinished

ADJECTIVE

absolute, utter

Synonyms

WEAK

arrant complete consummate downright entire out-and-out outright perfect pure rank sheer straight-out total unmitigated unqualified

Antonyms

WEAK

deficient imperfect inadequate incomplete inexhaustive partial superficial unfinished

ADJECTIVE

complete

Synonyms

WEAK

absolute arrant out-and-out unqualified

Antonyms

WEAK

incomplete

Example Sentences

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This is the most thoroughgoing feminist novel I have ever read.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 1, 2015

Richard Jones’s production, at the Young Vic through Aug. 22, is surely the most thoroughgoing flab-buster in town.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2015

I have a 4-year-old daughter who is the most thoroughgoing germ collector known to humankind.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2015

Willetts plans to make publicly funded research immediately available for anyone to read for free by 2014, in the most thoroughgoing shakeup of academic publishing since the internet.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2013

With the keenest insight he noticed that the magician Prospero was an impersonation of Shakespeare himself; and George Brandes, the most thoroughgoing of Shakespearean scholars, afterwards came to the same conclusion.

From Cambridge Sketches by Stearns, Frank Preston