exhaustive
adjective
ex·haus·tive
ig-ˈzȯ-stiv 
: including all possibilities : thorough
conducted an exhaustive search
Examples of exhaustive in a Sentence
The list was long but not exhaustive.
after an exhaustive search of our house, we still hadn't found the cat
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Emily Scherny, USA Today, 30 June 2025
The website Emojipedia, aiming to provide an exhaustive catalog of emoji, arrived in 2013.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2025
Today’s Round 1 analysis (which also includes a list of the top prospects available to start Round 2 tomorrow), will be followed on Day 2 by an exhaustive look at almost all of the 224 picks made across seven rounds, analyzing the complete hauls of each club.
—Scott Wheeler, New York Times, 27 June 2025
Clinics created exhaustive standards of care to comply with the REMS and to reduce their legal risk.
—Liana Simstrom, NPR, 22 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for exhaustive
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“Exhaustive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exhaustive. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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exhaustive
adjective
ex·haus·tive
ig-ˈzȯ-stiv
: trying all possibilities : thorough
an exhaustive search
exhaustively
adverb
exhaustiveness
noun
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