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thoroughgoing

/thur-oh-goh-ing, -uh-goh-, thuhr-/US // ˈθɜr oʊˌgoʊ ɪŋ, -əˌgoʊ-, ˈθʌr- //UK // (ˈθʌrəˌɡəʊɪŋ) //

彻底的,彻头彻尾的,透彻的,彻头彻尾

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : doing things thoroughly.
    • : carried out to the full extent; thorough.
    • : complete; unqualified: a thoroughgoing knave.

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Examples

  • In any case, the failure to make thoroughgoing plans to accommodate other media outlets is a de facto act of exclusivity.

  • JFK was thus a thoroughgoing practitioner of black swan logic.

  • One of those senators, Harry F. Byrd Jr., was a thoroughgoing segregationist.

  • There is simply nothing on the sports calendar as thoroughgoing as the domination of Thanksgiving Day by American football.

  • Hume and Holbach had much in common intellectually, although the latter was far more thoroughgoing in his repudiation of Theism.

  • Malthus was not a thoroughgoing supporter of the 'do-nothing' doctrine.

  • We are not even sure that, in a thoroughgoing civic catastrophe, Dr. Straton would escape.

  • It was called then the Charles Street gang, and none but the thoroughgoing cared to belong to it.

  • The men were a fine lot, and such thoroughgoing Americans, no matter from what country their parents had come.