Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Very thorough; complete.
- adjective Unmitigated; unqualified.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unqualified; out-and-out; thorough; complete.
- Synonyms See
radical .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
- adjective Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Complete ; thorough; full; with great attention todetail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective performed comprehensively and completely
- adjective without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Royce, influenced though he was by German Idealism as a whole, can hardly be called a thoroughgoing
Dictionary of the History of Ideas H. B. ACTON 1968
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-- we are to submit to the outward forms of respect, but we are frankly to say we are Republicans; he has the impudence to swear that England is a Republican country, and calls our thoroughgoing loyalty -- yours and mine, colonel -- disloyalty.
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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-- we are to submit to the outward forms of respect, but we are frankly to say we are Republicans; he has the impudence to swear that England is a Republican country, and calls our thoroughgoing loyalty
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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-- we are to submit to the outward forms of respect, but we are frankly to say we are Republicans; he has the impudence to swear that England is a Republican country, and calls our thoroughgoing loyalty -- yours and mine, colonel -- disloyalty.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Ordinary happiness is part of it but should not be conflated with the kind of thoroughgoing happiness the pantheist thinks it is possible to attain now and again.
Pantheism Levine, Michael 2007
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King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not.
latimes.com - News 2010
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King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not.
latimes.com - News 2010
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King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not.
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King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not.
latimes.com - News 2010
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King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not.
latimes.com - News 2010
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