exhaustive
/ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv
/ /ɛɡˈzɔːstɪv/adjective
Including or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive: the guide outlines every bus route in exhaustive detail...
- These are only a few examples which are neither comprehensive nor exhaustive.
- The campaign group said it sent the Government an exhaustive memo detailing the allegations in July.
- It also explores in exhaustive detail the way Wilson was out maneuvered at Versailles and how he left a broken man.
Synonyms
comprehensive, all-inclusive, complete, full, full-scale, all-embracing, all-encompassing, encyclopedic, thorough, in-depth, thoroughgoing, extensive, intensive, all-out, profound, far-reaching, sweeping, umbrella;
definitive;
detailed, minute, meticulous, painstaking, careful
informal wall-to-wall
Derivatives
exhaustiveness
/ /ɛɡˈzɔːstɪvnəs / noun ...- The international architectural community is bound to profit from the lessons conveyed by this exhibition, which covers with admirable exhaustiveness a subject vitally pertinent to the present day.
- Although advanced as a first, tentative approach, the proposal is presented very systematically, with clear ambitions to generality and exhaustiveness of the field.
- To point out this incompleteness is not to criticize Lyotard: his book is no treatise, no scientific biography; it has no aspiration to exhaustiveness.