exhaustively
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- adverb
- /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪvli/
- Formal
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exhaustivamente
- He prepared exhaustively for the exam, studying every topic covered in class.
- exhaustively researched
- exhaustively tested
- exhaustively analyzed
All of this is exhaustively documented.
- All of this is exhaustively documented.
- Their childhoods were exhaustively documented on social media.
- And they do that exhaustively until they've absorbed the whole of the World Wide Web.
Examples
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Such reports about Greco's methods were exhaustively chronicled for his retrospective in Spain.
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Both teams of investigators rigorously selected and exhaustively evaluated a wide array of studies.
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So I essentially cannot exhaustively write down all the conditions.
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You have stated your case exhaustively.
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All of this is exhaustively documented.
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So the idea I had was to pick a single production of a single play and sort of exhaustively examine that.
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However, it was not exhaustively tested with gifted children.
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Their childhoods were exhaustively documented on social media.
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At this point, the Research Pyramid is better suited to generating new projects than it is to exhaustively classifying existing AIS projects.
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In 2003, Southern Exposure exhaustively documented Citigroup's "AAA" move into the mass production of high-interest loans.
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Synonyms
∞
1.0
Totally, in every way
∞
1.0
To be complete with nothing left out
∞
1.0
Completely, with nothing left out
∞
2.2
Completely without leaving anything out
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3.5
To do something completely and carefully
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1.7
Completely, with nothing missing
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4.1
In a way that covers a large area or includes many parts
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3.4
Completely in every way
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3.1
Give all important facts so someone understands
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4.9
In a way that includes almost all parts
Antonyms
How Thorough
- Formal
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6.7
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4.9
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3.5
83
3.0
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2.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
exhaustively = exhaustive (transparent) = exhaust + ive + ly
Standard adverb formation from the adjective 'exhaustive' using '-ly', producing a predictable adverbial meaning.
Etymology
Exhaustively comes from the parts ex- meaning 'out' and -haust meaning 'to draw out', the same root as exhaust and exhaustion, which once meant 'to empty' or 'use up'. So, to do something exhaustively is like emptying a box to check every single thing—you look at everything and leave nothing out.