英和和英

語源

From thorough +‎ going (adjective).^[1]

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/, /-ɹoʊ/
• ハイフネーション: tho‧rough‧go‧ing

形容詞

thoroughgoing (comparative more thoroughgoing, superlative most thoroughgoing)

1. With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:total

   He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.

   • 1871, Walt Whitman, Democratic Vistas, New York: J.S. Redfield, p.50, [1]

     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.

   • 1927, T. S. Eliot, "The Humanism of Irving Babbitt," in Selected Essays, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1964, p. 425,

     I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XI, p. 182, [2]

     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, [3]

     After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.

別の表記

• thorough-going

上位語

• going

派生語

• thoroughgoingly

関連する語

• thoroughgo (廃れた用法)
• thoroughgoer (まれに)

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