exhaustive
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6.6
- adjective
- /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/
- Formal
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exhaustivo
- Her report was exhaustive, covering every aspect of the project in detail.
Well, so you just saw my rather exhaustive conversation with Brittany.
- Well, so you just saw my rather exhaustive conversation with Brittany.
- And this is all far from exhaustive, but there will be more to come.
- And this was an exhaustive five year investigation.
- I mean, it was a really, really exhaustive look at the literature.
- This is not an exhaustive list of course, right?
- And she runs through a non exhaustive list of ways in which writers screw up.
- So that said, the list may not be exhaustive.
- It's the most exhaustive diagnostics and therapeutics and it's not cheap.
- It is mostly during the Super, what I call the holy tedium of, of repetitive, exhaustive tasking.
- Sure, you could search for all renormalizable field theories and try to do an exhaustive search.
- And I'm certain that what I just said is not exhaustive, but hopefully it is most or entirely correct.
- Obviously that's not an exhaustive list, but those are examples of what can make a relationship unsafe psychologically.
- You know, you don't have to have a exhaustive discussion of every single thing to have a coherent and complete narrative.
- OK, so I've done lots of these things and they are the thing that I've noticed is if you do an exhaustive search, then you don't miss even things that you weren't looking for.
Examples
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I like to do an exhaustive search, come up with three solutions.
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I present you an exhaustive list of marketing channels.
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And this was an exhaustive five year investigation.
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One of them is to do an exhaustive search.
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And this is all far from exhaustive, but there will be more to come.
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This is not an exhaustive list of course, right?
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I mean, it was a really, really exhaustive look at the literature.
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After their exhaustive review of the evidence, the grand jury deliberated over two days, making their final decision.
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After an exhaustive search... ...we've identified who can best carry out a mission of this magnitude.
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The list of addictive disorders affecting students that this article provides is by no means exhaustive.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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4.1
Large in amount, range, or area
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4.6
Covering almost everything to give a complete and detailed view
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4.6
Shows careful attention to every detail and leaves nothing out
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6.0
Including everything and everyone in a single plan
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7.7
Done completely and carefully, leaving nothing out
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Exhaustive comes from Latin parts ex- meaning 'out' and haust meaning 'draw' or 'empty'. The related word exhaust means to use up or empty, so something exhaustive 'draws out' everything and is complete.