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Definition of Thoroughgoing

1. Adjective. Performed comprehensively and completely. "Thoroughgoing research"

2. Adjective. Without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers. "The unadulterated truth"

Definition of Thoroughgoing

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

Definition of Thoroughgoing

1. Adjective. Complete; thorough; full; with great attention to detail. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thoroughgoing

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoroughgoing

thorough-stitch thoroughbrace thoroughbraces thoroughbred thoroughbred race thoroughbred racing thoroughbreds thorougher thoroughest thoroughfare

thoroughfares thoroughgo thoroughgoing (current term) thoroughgoing(a) thoroughly thoroughness thoroughnesses thoroughpaced thoroughpin thoroughpins

thoroughs thoroughstitch thoroughwax thoroughwort thoroughworts thorow thorowly

Literary usage of Thoroughgoing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"Mr. Cleveland's thoroughgoing Whiggery and His Dislike of the Vulgus. ... A thoroughgoing whig, with all the prejudices of the "gentleman's ..."

2. "An American Commoner": The Life and Times of Richard Parks Bland. A Study by William Vincent Byars (1900)
"Mr. Cleveland's thoroughgoing Whiggery and His Dislike of the Vulgus. ... A thoroughgoing whig, with all the prejudices of the "gentleman's ..."

3. European Police Systems by Raymond Blaine Fosdick (1915)
"Lack of thoroughgoing municipal autonomy.— Peculiar situation of Paris.— The National Constabulary of Italy: the Carabinieri and the City Guards. ..."

4. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"thoroughgoing Exercise of the Function Essential The securing of joint control is more or less a futile procedure unless such control be exercised ..."

5. Surety Bonds: Nature, Functions, Underwriting Requirements by Edward Clark Lunt (1922)
"thoroughgoing Exercise of the Function Essential The securing of joint control is more or less a futile procedure unless such control be exercised ..."

6. Personal Recollections of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1893)
"more, the then dominant thoroughgoing Free Trade party regarded the patenting of inventions as a relic of the old monopoly rights, and incompatible with the ..."

7. Learning to Earn: A Plea and a Plan for Vocational Education by John Augustus Lapp, Carl Henry Mote (1915)
"... in employment—Training for accident prevention—Our industrial history is ignored in the schools— The importance of a thoroughgoing survey of industry. ..."

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