The Collaborative International Dictionary
Exhaustive \Ex*haust"ive\, a. Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method. Ex*haust"ive*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an exhaustive manner
WordNet
adv. in an exhaustive manner; "we searched the files thoroughly" [syn: thoroughly]
Usage examples of "exhaustively".
Fully recognized as portentous, the question was exhaustively discussed, with the confident assurances of some matched by the doubts and ambivalence of others, both military and civilian.
I recalled my promises of reform and preached to myself persuasively, upbraidingly, exhaustively.
And if anyone thinks these instances edge too near to farce, there are John of Lancaster, who commits his supreme treachery without an inkling, apparently, of its depravity, and Cloten, who goes to his most unspeakable crime in precisely the spirit which Professor Stoll so exhaustively documents.
I saw the millennia of Ballet performances as a single unified whole, creating a single, complex, exhaustively annotated image.
Knowing that the Polish Jew description from Anderson was more reliable than the name, Fido exhaustively checked the records of all the prisons and insane asylums in the area.
To his own view, he had reasoned exhaustively, had explained fully and had pleaded more than a father should, only to be met in the end with the unreasoning and mysterious stubbornness which had been Bibbs's baffling characteristic from childhood.
The escape routes on the ground had been exhaustively analyzed by Gris and Bleu, who were not only the best in the 246 business, but who would be using them as well.
It was composed of an exhaustively complex network of quasi-organic biocircuits whose skin, metallic and burnished, coruscated in the light.
It is a question which I cannot answer exhaustively at any one sitting, and as for the exact statistics to bear out my general statements, I shall have to refer you for them to books in my library, but it would certainly be a pity to leave you to be put to confusion by your old acquaintances, in case of the contingency you speak of, for lack of a few suggestions.
Pat Bateson, as an ethologist, has exhaustively answered that criticism,' and we saw no reason to believe that imprinting is so special that its cellular mechanisms are likely to be very different from any other form of vertebrate learning.
Professor Huxley has dealt exhaustively with the Gadarene Swine, showing that if Jesus himself loved his neighbours, he was at least a little careless about their property, which was in this instance their sole means of livelihood.
Petrie in particular that since he continues to smell up our division by living here, if he’s so hard up that he needs to go looking for lesbians, maybe his manhood needs further research—and the next time we pick him up I’ll see to it personally that he gets put in a certain detention cell where his masculinity will be thoroughly and exhaustively researched.
My bet is he read up exhaustively on the syndrome in order to create a textbook case.
And the scientific method of fearless thought, exhaustively lucid statement, and exhaustively criticized planning, which has given him these as yet uncontrollable powers, gives him also the hope of controlling these powers.
White had so many threats… last night they had analyzed the possibilities exhaustively, playing and replaying every variation and subvariation until they were sure that they had found the win.