Synonyms for thorough-going
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
thorough, complete, perfect, proper, exhaustive, decided, right, pure, pyore US, clean, consummate, out-and-out, straight-out, regular, utter, stark, downright, plain, radical, absolute, wholesale, unqualified, precious, staring, gross, sheer, total, unmitigated, outright, soup-to-nuts US, unadulterated, double-dyed, unrestricted, unconditional, rank, unreserved, everlasting, sweeping, arrant dated, sodding vulgar UK IE
Definitions
- adj. 1
With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.
He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- going
- Other spellings
- thoroughgoing
Example sentences
- decided We finally decided to give him over to the police.
- thorough We will check everything in the most thorough way.
- exhaustive Can science provide an exhaustive answer?
- consummate He is a consummate professional in his field.
- staring Tom and Mary just sat there staring at each other.
By length
- 4 letters
- pure1, rank1
- 5 letters
- right1, total2, clean1, gross1, plain1, stark1, sheer1, utter2, pyore
- 6 letters
- proper2, arrant2
- 7 letters
- perfect2, decided3, regular3, radical3, staring2, sodding
- 8 letters
- complete2, absolute3, precious2, thorough2, outright2, sweeping2
- 9 letters
- wholesale2, downright2
- 10 letters
- exhaustive3, consummate3, unreserved
- 11 letters
- everlasting4, unqualified4, unmitigated5
- 12 letters
- unrestricted4
- 13 letters
- unconditional5, unadulterated6
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (total2 = 2 syllables).