"thoroughgoing" in the adjective sense
1. exhaustive, thorough, thoroughgoing
performed comprehensively and completely not superficial or partial
"an exhaustive study"
"made a thorough search"
"thoroughgoing research"
2. arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, everlasting, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, stark, staring, thorough, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated
without qualification used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
"an arrant fool"
"a complete coward"
"a consummate fool"
"a double-dyed villain"
"gross negligence"
"a perfect idiot"
"pure folly"
"what a sodding mess"
"stark staring mad"
"a thorough nuisance"
"a thoroughgoing villain"
"utter nonsense"
"the unadulterated truth"
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