thoroughgoing

Definition

With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.

Etymology

From thorough + going (adjective).

Example Sentences

• "He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass."
• "It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature."
• "I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment."