thoroughgoing
/ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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."
- "Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left."
- "1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, https://web.archive.org/web/20130721101358/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,844332,00.html After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/
- British English: /ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Frequently Paired Words
thoroughgo
thoroughgoer