thoroughgoing
/θʌrəˈɡəʊɪŋ
/adjective
1Involving or attending to every detail or aspect of something: a thoroughgoing reform of the whole economy...
- The need of the hour is thoroughgoing political and electoral reforms.
- Then, if ever, was a signal opportunity to lay the groundwork for a genuinely thoroughgoing reform in keeping with the complementary ideas of free enterprise and equal access to natural opportunity.
- While worthwhile, commendable, and necessary, these local prosecutions are not enough to prompt the thoroughgoing national, institutional reforms needed.
1.1 [attributive] Exemplifying a specified characteristic fully; absolute: a thoroughgoing chocoholic...
- Even where Europeanization has, over time, produced pure and thoroughgoing Communitarization, levers for national influence have been retained and guarded very jealously.
- He was, of course, a consummate thief, but he was probably not the most thoroughgoing plunderer among the world's despots.
- He has written of the thoroughgoing nihilism of this class: their sense that life has no meaningful shape but is only one thing after another.
Rhymes
- reclusively
- reclusiveness
- reclusory
- reco
- recoagulation
- recoal
- recoat
- recock
- recode
- recogitate
- recogitation
- recognisable
- recognisance
- recognisant
- recognise
- recognisingly
- recognisor
- recognition
- recognitional
- recognition call
- recognition color
- recognition colour
- recognition grammar
- recognition mark
- recognition marking