thoroughgoing
tho·rough·going
adjective
1.
very thorough; exhaustively complete
- “an exhaustive study”
- “made a thorough search”
- “thoroughgoing research”
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”
Origin
From thorough + going (adjective).
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