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thoroughgoingly

thoroughgoingly adverb: fully; completely; thoroughly.

Adverb

thoroughgoingly (comparative more thoroughgoingly, superlative most thoroughgoingly)

  1. Fully; completely; thoroughly.
    • Our feelings are not transferable. My world may have points of identity with other people's worlds. How thoroughgoingly we view matters in the same way is nevertheless very hard for us to tell.1877, Ernest Carroll Moore, What is education?, page 171
    • Step by step, as he fared forward, he collated, weighed, and measured, and registered thi results to which the best ascertained facts and straightforward logic necessitated him. He subverts, it must be granted, more than he establishes ; and yet, even where he is most thoroughgoingly destructive...1879, The Nation 1879-12-04: Volume 29, Issue 753, Nation Company L.P., page 390

Examples of thoroughgoingly in a sentence

  • He subverts, it must be granted, more than he establishes ; and yet, even where he is most thoroughgoingly destructive, he has, as a rule, something weighty to offer in suggestion, constructively.1879, The Nation 1879-12-04: Volume 29, Issue 753, Nation Company L.P., page 390:
  • The thoroughgoingly ironic environmentalist laughs at herself, not just at others.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 45:

Forms of thoroughgoingly

comparativemore thoroughgoingly
superlativemost thoroughgoingly

Origin of thoroughgoingly

From thoroughgoing + -ly.

Questions about thoroughgoingly

What does thoroughgoingly mean?
Thoroughgoingly means fully; completely; thoroughly.
How do you use thoroughgoingly in a sentence?
He subverts, it must be granted, more than he establishes ; and yet, even where he is most thoroughgoingly destructive, he has, as a rule, something weighty to offer in suggestion, constructively.
What part of speech is thoroughgoingly?
Thoroughgoingly is an adverb.

Words near thoroughgoingly in the dictionary

  1. thoroughfarers
  2. thoroughfares
  3. thoroughflow
  4. thoroughgo
  5. thoroughgoing
  6. thoroughgoingly
  7. thoroughgoingness
  8. thoroughlane
  9. thoroughlanes
  10. thoroughly
  11. thoroughness

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