exhaustive

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ɪˈgzɔstɪv/

📖 Definitions

  1. adjective
    Including or considering all elements or aspects; fully comprehensive, leaving nothing out.; Tending to exhaust or drain; extremely tiring or demanding.

🔗 Details

Word forms

Comparative: more exhaustive Superlative: most exhaustive

Collocations

exhaustive searchexhaustive listexhaustive analysisexhaustive studyexhaustive reviewexhaustive investigation

Derivatives

exhaustivelyexhaustivenessexhaustexhaustionexhaustibleinexhaustibleexhaustedexhausting

Synonyms

comprehensivethoroughcompleteall-encompassingencyclopedicfull

Antonyms

incompletepartialcursorysuperficial

Commonly confused

exhausting
EN: 'Exhausting' means extremely tiring or draining; 'exhaustive' means thorough and complete in coverage.
exhausted
EN: 'Exhausted' means completely used up or extremely tired; 'exhaustive' means covering all aspects thoroughly.

Spelling tips

EN: Do not confuse 'exhaustive' (thorough, complete) with 'exhausting' (tiring, draining). They share a root but have very different meanings.

💬 Examples

  1. The researcher conducted an exhaustive study of all available literature on the subject.

  2. After the exhaustive climb, the hikers collapsed at the summit.