Thoroughgoing
[θʌrə'gəʊɪŋ] or [,θɝo'ɡoɪŋ]
Definition
(a.) Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
(a.) Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
Editor: Ryan
Examples
- When they found that they could not use the figures that had governed the construction of marine propellers they set to work to solve this problem in the same thoroughgoing way. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The thoroughgoing character of this helplessness suggests, however, some compensating power. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- But what impressed the observant, thoroughgoing German was the breadth with which the whole lighting art had been elaborated and perfected, even at that early day. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Ryan