exhaustive
Etymology
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Etymology
From exhaust + -ive.
Pronunciation Adjectiveexhaustive
- Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
- Synonyms: all-encompassing
- Hypernyms: thorough, comprehensive, Thesaurus:comprehensive
- We made an exhaustive list.
- (now rare) Causing exhaustion; very tiring
- Synonyms: tiring, weariful, Thesaurus:fatiguing
- 1878, John Henry Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England: A. D. 1514-1547, page 98:
- Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.
- French: exhaustif
- German: vollständig, erschöpfend, abschließend
- Italian: esaustivo, esauriente
- Portuguese: exaustivo
- Russian: исче́рпывающий
- Spanish: exhaustivo
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