Exhaustive
[ɪg'zɔːstɪv;eg-] or [ɪg'zɔstɪv]
Definition
(adj.) performed comprehensively and completely; 'an exhaustive study'; 'made a thorough search'; 'thoroughgoing research' .
Edited by Dorothy--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- See, continued the Vicar, opening several small drawers, I fancy I have made an exhaustive study of the entomology of this district. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now he began his exhaustive study of bamboo. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For instance, the complex problem of a practical telephone transmitter gave rise to a series of most exhaustive experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Johnson he made exhaustive tests, carrying away with him to Glasgow University the surprising records that he obtained. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How exhaustive and unpleasant such a process would be, he saw even more vividly after his two hours' talk with poor Dorset. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The patient and I then plunged into a discussion of his case, of which I took exhaustive notes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Chopping about is merely an exhaustive process. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Nathan