exhaustive

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Detailed and careful
blow-by-blow
detailed
detailedly
diligence
diligent
in depthphrase
in the weedsidiom
intimately
intricate
intricately
over-elaborate
over-fussy
over-organize
over-organized
painstaking
thorough
thoroughgoingly
thoroughness
white-glove
wonkiness

Examples of thoroughgoing

thoroughgoing
But nevertheless the considerations raised in that chapter militate in favor of a much more thoroughgoing, largely nondetachable theistic account.
However, conservatives advocated a more gradual and less thoroughgoing transition to commercial agriculture than even moderate liberals.
He lowers his standards rather than recasting his argument in the thoroughgoing way that would be required to avoid the problems.
The initial impetus was to exclude history altogether as inappropriate to thoroughgoing revolutionaries.
With contributions from different authors, there is no central thoroughgoing theme to the volume.
For those who are old-fashioned enough to think that "radicalism" implies a more thoroughgoing transformation than liberalism can countenance, "radical liberalism" will seem incoherent.
Alternatively, the current craze for micro-foundations might be viewed as a thoroughgoing rejection of grand theory.
The damage in question seems to have occasioned a thoroughgoing attempt at textual restoration on the part of an ambitious redactor.
That is, a thoroughgoing libertarianism claims that each and every view of the good life must be considered equal to every other.
First, the time schedule remains much the same, and thus hardly conducive to a thoroughgoing legislative review.
Any intuitive discomfort this judgement may occasion one is the price that has to be paid for accepting a thoroughgoing ' 'uncompassed' ' view of poverty.
It is curious that researchers otherwise committed to the thoroughgoing use of distributed representations have been happy to use such featural representations.
Other musicians have employed record noise in a more thoroughgoing and experimental fashion.
Nevertheless, the considerations raised in that chapter militate in favor of a much more thoroughgoing, largely nondetachable theistic account.
Since economic and political reforms have just begun, the reform of scientific and technological systems can hardly be as thoroughgoing as could be wished.
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