| 单词 | exhaustive |
| 释义 | exhaustive (once / 1976 pages) adj Exhaustive means performed comprehensively and completely. When you recruit a new employee (or spouse), you undertake an exhaustive search for the best talent. When you are exhaustive about something, you are testing all possibilities or considering all elements. If you want to become an attorney you will need an exhaustive knowledge of the leather bound books in the law library. When you exhaust something, you use it up entirely, so something exhaustive is complete. After your exhaustive tour of Rome, you're exhausted. WORD FAMILYexhaustive: exhaustively+/exhaust: exhausted, exhausting, exhaustion, exhaustive, exhausts/exhausted: exhaustedly, unexhausted/exhausting: exhaustingly/exhaustion: exhaustions USAGE EXAMPLESJohnson’s research is exhaustive and, at times, exhausting. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Mr. Siedle did not gain access to all the fund documents needed to do an exhaustive review. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) “It also demands a diligent and exhaustive investigation.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) adj performed comprehensively and completely an exhaustive study Syn thorough, thoroughgoing complete having every necessary or normal part or component or step |
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