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单词 thoroughgoing
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thoroughgoing

(θʌrəgoʊɪŋ, US θɜːroʊ-) also thorough-going
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
You use thoroughgoing to emphasize that someone or something is fully or completely the type of person or thing specified.
[emphasis]
...a thoroughgoing conservative.
...readers who are unhappy with such thoroughgoing materialism.
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe a piece of work as thoroughgoing, you approve of it because it has been carefully and thoroughly put together.
[approval]
...a thoroughgoing review of prison conditions.
...this splendidly thoroughgoing biography.

thoroughgoing in British English

(ˈθʌrəˌɡəʊɪŋ)
adjective
1. 
extremely thorough
2. (usually prenominal)
absolute; complete
thoroughgoing incompetence
Derived forms
thoroughgoingly (ˈthoroughˌgoingly)
adverb
thoroughgoingness (ˈthoroughˌgoingness)
noun

thoroughgoing in American English

(ˈθɜroʊˈgoʊɪŋ; ˈθɜrəˈgoʊɪŋ)
adjective
very thorough
; specif.,
a. 
precise and painstaking
b. 
being wholly such; unmitigated

Examples of 'thoroughgoing' in a sentence
thoroughgoing

This was a thoroughgoing hatred of mankind, with a bonus for any woman who looked, spoke and treated people as Constance Kimble did.
Hilton, John Buxton THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL) (2004)
A thoroughgoing rogue named Duke Feribor, who has some distant claim to the crown of Cathra.
Julian May IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE (2004)
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