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 thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"
emphasis You use thoroughgoing to emphasize that someone or something is fully or completely the type of person or thing specified. a thoroughgoing conservative. readers who are unhappy with such thoroughgoing materialism
approval If you describe a piece of work as thoroughgoing, you approve of it because it has been carefully and thoroughly put together. a thoroughgoing review of prison conditions. = thorough