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most thorough

ADJECTIVE

exhaustive

Synonyms

WEAK

absolute all the way all-embracing all-inclusive all-out assiduous blow-by-blow careful circumstantial clocklike complete comprehensive conscientious detailed efficient exact from A to Z full full-dress in-depth intensive itemized meticulous minute painstaking particular particularized plenty royal scrupulous slam-bang soup to nuts sweeping tough whole-hog

Antonyms

WEAK

deficient imperfect inadequate incomplete inexhaustive partial superficial unfinished

ADJECTIVE

absolute, utter

Synonyms

WEAK

arrant complete consummate downright entire out-and-out outright perfect pure rank sheer straight-out total unmitigated unqualified

Antonyms

WEAK

deficient imperfect inadequate incomplete inexhaustive partial superficial unfinished

ADJECTIVE

all-encompassing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accurate careful complete comprehensive detailed exhaustive full intensive meticulous painstaking profound

WEAK

absolute arrant consummate exact extreme finished ingrained out-and-out thoroughly unmitigated utter

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless incomplete incomprehensive needy thoughtless undetailed unfinished

WEAK

cursory partial sciolistic superficial

Example Sentences

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Despite these limitations, the study offers one of the most thorough and up-to-date evaluations of exercise for knee osteoarthritis.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

This is a landmark book, by far the most thorough and skilfully evocative Nigerian cookbook published in English.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

“We have the capabilities to do this in the most thorough way.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 3, 2023

The conclusions of the U.S. intelligence community now line up with one of the private sector's most thorough gatherers of predictive data: the insurance industry.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2023

That evening I had the most thorough bath ever, more thorough than the one I had on my first day at school.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane