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exhaustive

adj
/ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/UK/ɪɡˈzɔstɪv/US/ɪɡˈzɑstɪv/CA/ɪɡˈzoːstɪv/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider. Proto-Italic *auzjō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Medieval Latin exhaustīvusbor. English exhaustive Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustīvus. By surface analysis, exhaust + -ive.

  1. derived from exhaustive Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustīvus
  2. derived from -īvus Medieval Latin exhaustīvusbor
  3. derived from *auzjō Latin hauriō Latin exhauriō Latin exhaustus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder✻
  4. derived from *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews-ye-tider✻

Definitions

  1. Including every possible element

    Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.

    • We made an exhaustive list.

  2. Causing exhaustion

    Causing exhaustion; very tiring.

    • Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.
    • Chopping and hauling wood was exhaustive work. Scraping the flesh off the heavy hides and hanging them to dry also taxed her physical strength.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for exhaustive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA