thoroughgoing

thoroughgoing
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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
1. thorough exhaustive, painstaking, precise, in-depth, *down to the last detail, precise, exact, meticulous.
2. complete utter, absolute, unmitigated, out-and-out, unqualified, sheer.
ANT.: 1. superficial, partial, careless. 2. partial, incomplete, qualified
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(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Covering all aspects with painstaking accuracy: all-out, complete, exhaustive, full-dress, intensive, thorough, thoroughpaced. See BIG, CAREFUL. 2. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal: flat-out, positive. Chiefly British: blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.

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