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thoroughgoing en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (General-American) audio
• /ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/ (General-American)
• /-ɹoʊ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From thorough + going (adjective).

Meanings

1. With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.
   • 1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101358/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844332,00.html After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.
   • He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.
   • I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment. 1927, T. S. Eliot, “The Humanism of Irving Babbitt”, in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1964, page 425:
   • It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature. 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, page 50:
   • Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 182:

Forms

Deriveds

thoroughgoingly · thoroughgoingness

Hypernyms

going

Relateds

thoroughgoer · thoroughgo

Synonyms

total · unqualified · full · root and branch · abject · unfettered · full-blown · thorough · clean · full-bore · unattenuated · sheer · absolute · rank · proper · categorical · downright · perfect · unadulterated · complete · frightful · arrant · thoroughgoing · utter · unalloyed · prize · outright · unmitigated · unconditional · categoric · unreserved · decided · straight-out · full-on · uncompromising · right · out-and-out · wholesale · mere · consummate · pure · regular · unrestricted · precious · stark

Translations (23)

pl dokładny (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · cmn 徹頭徹尾 /彻头彻尾 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · fr à tous crins (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · sh skrupulozno (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · cmn 澈底 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · es pormenorizado (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · ko 철저하다 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · de gründlich (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · cmn 築底 /筑底 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · pl gruntowny (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · pl szczegółowy (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · cmn 彻底 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · nl ingrijpend (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · cmn 徹底 /彻底 (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · ru тща́тельный (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · sh temeljito (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · ru доскона́льный (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · bg реши́телен (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · ru скрупулёзный (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · th ครบ (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · ka უკომპრომისო (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · th สำเร็จ (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough) · hu radikális (with great attention to detail — see also complete, thorough)