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Thorough

Through.

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Similar meaning 4

Careful 84% connected

Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Careful 84% connected

Full of care; anxious; solicitous.

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Complete 84% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

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Complete 84% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Thoroughness 74% connected

The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

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Thoroughness 74% connected

The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

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Synonym 15

Arrant 92% connected

Notoriously or preeminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Complete 92% connected

Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Consummate 92% connected

Carried to the utmost extent or degree; of the highest quality; complete; perfect.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Double-dyed 92% connected

Dyed twice; thoroughly or intensely colored; hence; firmly fixed in opinions or habits; as, a double-dyed villain.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Everlasting 92% connected

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exhaustive 92% connected

Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments; as, an exhaustive method.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gross 92% connected

Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Perfect 92% connected

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Pure 92% connected

Separate from all heterogeneous or extraneous matter; free from mixture or combination; clean; mere; simple; unmixed; as, pure water; pure clay; pure…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Sodding 92% connected

of Sod

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staring 92% connected

of Stare

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Stark 92% connected

Stiff; rigid.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thoroughgoing 92% connected

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Unadulterated 92% connected

Not adulterated; pure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Utter 92% connected

Outer.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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