exhaustive

[ ig-zaws-tiv ]

/ ɪgˈzɔs tɪv /

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adjective

exhausting a subject, topic, etc.; comprehensive; thorough: He published an exhaustive study of Greek vases.

tending to exhaust or drain, as resources or strength: a protracted, exhaustive siege of illness.

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Origin of exhaustive

First recorded in 1780–90; exhaust + -ive

OTHER WORDS FROM exhaustive

ex·haus·tive·ly, adverbex·haus·tive·ness, nounnon·ex·haus·tive, adjectivenon·ex·haus·tive·ly, adverb

non·ex·haus·tive·ness, nounun·ex·haus·tive, adjectiveun·ex·haus·tive·ly, adverb

Words nearby exhaustive

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If you are just starting out, this article is, by no means, exhaustive, but consider it a nudge in the right direction and a playbook to help you set about building your brand recognition the right way.
Inbound marketing for brand awareness: Four up-to-date ways to do it|Ali Faagba|September 11, 2020|Search Engine Watch
The report—commissioned by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission—includes an exhaustive overview of risks, from falling real estate values in coastal flood zones to the inability of Midwestern farmers to repay loans after droughts or floods.
The US isn’t doing the one thing needed to protect the financial system from climate change|Tim McDonnell|September 10, 2020|Quartz
The company declined to make Vazquez available for an interview or respond to an exhaustive list of written questions regarding its legal collections strategy and general business practices.
The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic|by Kiah Collier, Ren Larson and Perla Trevizo|August 31, 2020|ProPublica
If you are going to try to fine-tune your margin of error, though, then we think you need to be pretty exhaustive about thinking through sources of uncertainty.
Our Election Forecast Didn’t Say What I Thought It Would|Nate Silver (nrsilver@fivethirtyeight.com)|August 17, 2020|FiveThirtyEight

“Discord” proceeds to envelop us in this exhaustive, mind-racking debate.
The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson (And Tolstoy and Dickens)|Samuel Fragoso|October 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They will also focus on the exhaustive nature of the investigation, during which staffers reviewed over 16 million documents.
You're About to See What Obama Calls 'Torture'|Josh Rogin, Eli Lake|August 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Consider, for example, the exhaustive coverage Chris Christie has received in recent months.
The Media's Selective Political Scandal Addiction|Ron Christie|April 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here, now, are the results of an exhaustive listening study stretching back to 1998.
Shows on NPR, Ranked in Order From Glorious to Unbearable|Kelly Williams Brown|January 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
An exhaustive investigation uncovered some 24 such events over the last year, or about one every two weeks on average.
Read This, Skip That: The Best of The Daily Beast in 2013||December 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Very many thanks for your interesting and exhaustive investigations on the French lakes.
The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton|Mrs. Russell Barrington
No one is content to accept the contemplated union, should it be accomplished, as exhaustive.
The War and Unity|Various
All these plays, and the list is not exhaustive, are filled with personal allusions.
A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare|Frederick Gard Fleay
Bebel's exhaustive work, here put in English garb, does this double work unerringly.
Woman under socialism|August Bebel
The list of schools in connection with monasteries does not profess to be exhaustive.
Education in England in the Middle Ages|Albert William Parry

British Dictionary definitions for exhaustive

exhaustive

/ (ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv) /

adjective

comprehensive in scope; thoroughan exhaustive survey

tending to exhaust

Derived forms of exhaustive

exhaustively, adverbexhaustiveness, noun

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WORD OF THE DAY

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adjective

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