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What is "thoroughgoing"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thoroughgoing
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a thoroughgoing investigation of the case
▪ The tutoring program is a thoroughgoing success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A thoroughgoing deconstructive analysis would show culture being absorbed into literature, or at least into textuality and verbal play.
▪ A thoroughgoing royalist, he was responsible for beheading some of those he captured, apparently after some form of trial.
▪ But they minimize the difference in so far as they propound a thoroughgoing assimilation of male and female desires.
▪ For Buckle, this laid the foundations for a thoroughgoing science of history, and others shared his belief.
▪ Such critical perspectives suggest we are in the midst of a thoroughgoing overhaul of traditional ideas about artistic value and meaning.
▪ The sociologist Scheff is probably the social scientist who has attempted the most thoroughgoing analysis of catharsis in social life.
▪ Then, too, right beside the moralizing lay a deep and thoroughgoing tolerance.
▪ There is no evidence that they were thoroughgoing pacifists.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thoroughgoing

Thoroughgoing \Thor"ough*go`ing\, a.

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

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

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thoroughgoing

1800, from thorough + going.

Wiktionary
thoroughgoing

a. complete; thorough; full; with great attention to detail.

WordNet
thoroughgoing

  1. adj. very thorough; exhaustively complete; "an exhaustive study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing research" [syn: exhaustive, thorough]

  2. without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a)]

Usage examples of "thoroughgoing".

So elaborate and thoroughgoing were these brainwashing techniques, that eventually the D.

The probability that the church might, with the continued growth and influence of this party, become Americanized and so lose the purity of its thoroughgoing Scotch traditions was very real, and to some minds very dreadful.

By using that term as she did, mistrustfully and contemptuously, she announced herself as, in germ, an anti-Clerical as thoroughgoing as Voltaire or Anatole France.

Responsible, thoroughgoing, rigorous scepticism requires a hardnosed habit of thought that takes practice and training to master.

Her mother was a thoroughgoing harlot, after all, and the apple does not fall far from the tree.

Within minutes he would be under physical examination by members of the most ruthless, most thoroughgoing and efficient race in the solar system.

This is what Blumfeld wants, but since, as he realizes, it cannot be had without serious drawbacks, he renounces it, and yet -- in accordance with his thoroughgoing disposition -- the idea from time to time, this evening, for instance, occurs to him again.

You end up a thoroughgoing ignoramus on everything in the world except for one subdivisional sliver of nothing.

Both were thoroughgoing materialists, not in prizing possessions but in holding that matter alone provided the underpinnings of the world.