Crossword Dictionary
EXHAUSTIVE
exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing - a
performed comprehensively and completely; "an exhaustive study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing research"
Synonyms
all-out, clean, complete, comprehensive, full-scale, out-and-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total
Examples
The reader is referred to that paper for an exhaustive history and discussion of the intrument.
The arm-muscles have been studied in an absolutely exhaustive manner by Fiirbringer, who in his monumental work has tabulated and then scrutinized the chief characters of fourteen selected muscles.
In the present article it is impossible to give an exhaustive catalogue of the phenomena and modes of communication of modern spiritualism.'
Etymology
"tending to exhaust all parts or phases, thorough," especially of a writing or speech which leaves no part of its subject unexamined, 1789, from exhaust (v.) + -ive. Related: Exhaustively; exhaustiveness.