exhaustive

English

Etymology

From exhaust +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɔː.stɪv/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɛɡˈzɑ.stɪv/

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

exhaustive (comparative more exhaustive, superlative most exhaustive)

1. Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.

   Synonym: all-encompassing

   Hypernyms: thorough, comprehensive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

   We made an exhaustive list.

2. (now rare) Causing exhaustion; very tiring

   Synonyms: tiring, weariful; see also Thesaurus:fatiguing

   • 1878, John Henry Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England: A. D. 1514-1547, page 98:

     Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.

   • 2013, Gloria Linkey, Native American Women: Three Who Changed History:

     Chopping and hauling wood was exhaustive work. Scraping the flesh off the heavy hides and hanging them to dry also taxed her physical strength.

Derived terms

• collectively exhaustive
• exhaustively
• exhaustiveness
• nonexhaustive

 

Translations

including every possible element

• Armenian: սպառիչ (hy) (spaṙičʻ)
• Bulgarian: изчерпателен (bg) (izčerpatelen)
• Catalan: exhaustiu (ca)
• Czech: vyčerpávající (cs)
• Dutch: volledig (nl)
• Esperanto: ĝisfunda (eo)
• Finnish: tyhjentävä (fi)
• French: exhaustif (fr)
• Galician: exhaustivo
• German: vollständig (de), erschöpfend (de), abschließend (de)
• Greek: εξαντλητικός (el) (exantlitikós)
• Hungarian: kimerítő (hu), teljes körű
• Italian: esaustivo (it), esauriente (it)
• Occitan: exaustiu
• Polish: wyczerpujący (pl)
• Portuguese: exaustivo (pt)
• Russian: исче́рпывающий (ru) (isčérpyvajuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏сцрпан

  Roman: ȉscrpan (sh) m

• Spanish: exhaustivo (es)
• Swedish: uttömmande (sv)
• Turkish: kapsamlı (tr), şümullü (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: виче́рпний (vyčérpnyj)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zos.tiv/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: exhaustives

Adjective

exhaustive

1. feminine singular of exhaustif