Search Result for "thoroughgoing": 
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. performed comprehensively and completely;
- Example: "an exhaustive study"
- Example: "made a thorough search"
- Example: "thoroughgoing research"
[syn: exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing]

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



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Thoroughgoing \Thor"ough*go`ing\, a.
   1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough;
      complete.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common
      in this sense.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

thoroughgoing
    adj 1: performed comprehensively and completely; "an exhaustive
           study"; "made a thorough search"; "thoroughgoing
           research" [syn: exhaustive, thorough,
           thoroughgoing]
    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"; "the unadulterated truth" [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), unadulterated]