Thoroughgoing

Word THOROUGHGOING
Character 13
Hyphenation thor ough go ing
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Thoroughgoing"

What do we mean by thoroughgoing?

Very thorough; complete. adjective

Unmitigated; unqualified. adjective

Unqualified; out-and-out; thorough; complete.

Synonyms See radical.

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete. adjective

Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense. adjective

Complete; thorough; full; with great attention to detail. adjective

Performed comprehensively and completely adjective

Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers adjective

Complete; thorough; with great attention to detail.

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The word "thoroughgoing" in example sentences

Royce, influenced though he was by German Idealism as a whole, can hardly be called a thoroughgoing ❋ H. B. ACTON (1968)

-- 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 ❋ George Meredith (1868)

-- 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. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

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. ❋ Levine, Michael (2007)

King and his show had some endearing and admirable qualities not least his dedication to long interviews, "thoroughgoing" he was not. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rod, for one, expresses respectful doubts; he just doesn't see any kind of thoroughgoing populist rethinking as plausible in an America as diverse as ours is today. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Understandably Durgnat would have preferred that I thought his book profound, but it seems to me largely as I described it: "thoroughgoing" in its inventory and full of "grateful and pleasant words" ” though somewhat intellectually meandering, muddying the waters to make them appear deep, as in, especially, "the context of socio-political polemic." ❋ Durgnat, Raymond (1974)

The Hays Code was as thoroughgoing a restriction of expression as any system of censorship imposed in Germany and Italy. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

PAN started as a fascist party, largely appealing to the provincial criollos, and Jose Vasconcelos -- who identified nationalism with conservative Spanish ideals -- was a thoroughgoing anti-Semite (he ended up as the editor of a pro-Nazi, German supported newspaper of little circulation). ❋ Unknown (2010)

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