exhaustive
[ig-zaws-tiv]
- 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
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Contemporary Examples
She avoids an exhaustively descriptive definition because she opposes condemning all novels based on the flaws of some novels.
That allure lives in her exhaustively detailed diaries, published in seven volumes and covering five decades.
But of course - as I stressed in my post above - those questions of high policy have been exhaustively discussed.
There are many deeply disturbing aspects to this case, which Morris exhaustively documents.
No viewpoint or detail is too insignificant to be exhaustively examined.
Historical Examples
He believed, however, that he had slept long, deeply and exhaustively.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
They have been exhaustively discussed in the clear and forcible briefs and arguments of counsel.
It is exhaustively indexed, and accompanied by three portraits.'
Battles of English HistoryH. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
"I don't know anything at all about men," replies Esther, exhaustively.
Red as a Rose is SheRhoda Broughton
To-day I have reviewed the situation carefully, exhaustively.
The Journal of a Disappointed ManWilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion
exhaustive
- comprehensive in scope; thoroughan exhaustive survey
- tending to exhaust
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Word Origin and History for exhaustively
exhaustive
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