thoroughgoing

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}]
    

Thoroughgoing \Thor"ough*go`ing\, a.
   1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough;
      complete.
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   2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common
      in this sense.
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