Thoroughgoingly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Thoroughgoingly is an adverb meaning Fully; completely; thoroughly.
Meaning
Fully; completely; thoroughly.
Example Sentences
The thoroughgoingly ironic environmentalist laughs at herself, not just at others.
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.
Ted Bundy wasn’t particularly Lynchian, but good old Jeffrey Dahmer, with his victim’s various anatomies neatly separated and stored in his fridge alongside his chocolate milk and Shedd Spread, was thoroughgoingly Lynchian.
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, he has, as a rule, something weighty to offer in suggestion, constructively.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include over, richly, utterly, fullwise, properly, mightily.
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