thoroughgoing

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective performed comprehensively and completely
adjective without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

From thorough + going (adjective).

He was one of my churchwardens, a capital fellow, so thoroughgoing and reliable. — The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town, L. T. Meade
Apparently a much more thoroughgoing suggestion than any of the preceding ones, especially Mill’s, in reality it is a much simpler system that is proposed. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
Philosophy possesses, then, no axioms, and has no right to impose its à priori principles upon thought, until it has established their authority and validity by a thoroughgoing deduction. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant

exhaustive, thorough

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