thoroughgoing Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite performed comprehensively and completely
    exhaustive; thorough.
    • an exhaustive study
    • made a thorough search
    • thoroughgoing research
  2. adjective satellite without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
    perfect; double-dyed; complete; gross; arrant; unadulterated; sodding; stark; consummate; pure; utter; everlasting; staring.
    • an arrant fool
    • a complete coward
    • a consummate fool
    • a double-dyed villain
    • gross negligence
    • a perfect idiot
    • pure folly
    • what a sodding mess
    • stark staring mad
    • a thoroughgoing villain
    • utter nonsense
    • the unadulterated truth

WordNet

Thor"ough*go`ing adjective
Definitions
  1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
  2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

Webster 1913