thoroughgoing (adj.)

  1. performed comprehensively and completely; an exhaustive study; made a thorough search; thoroughgoing research

    [ Syn: exhaustive , thorough ]

  2. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; an arrant fool; a complete coward; a consummate fool; a double-dyed villain; gross negligence; a perfect idiot; pure folly; what a sodding mess; stark staring mad; a thoroughgoing villain; utter nonsense; the unadulterated truth

    [ Syn: arrant , complete , consummate , double-dyed , everlasting , gross , perfect , pure , sodding , stark , staring , utter , unadulterated ]

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