exhaustive
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Definition of exhaustive
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
“We made an exhaustive list.”
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adj
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Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
“We made an exhaustive list.”
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(archaic)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.”
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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.
Words you can make from exhaustive
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Best play exuviates 19 points8-letter words
3 words7-letter words
4 words6-letter words
13 words5-letter words
47 words- HEXES 15 pts
- SIXTH 15 pts
- VAXES 15 pts
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- AXITE 12 pts
- EXIST 12 pts
- EXITS 12 pts
- SIXTE 12 pts
- TAXES 12 pts
- TAXIS 12 pts
- TAXUS 12 pts
- TEXAS 12 pts
- TUXES 12 pts
- HAVES 11 pts
- HEAVE 11 pts
- HEVEA 11 pts
- HIVES 11 pts
- SHAVE 11 pts
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- SHIVE 11 pts
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- EVITE 8 pts
- HAETS 8 pts
- HASTE 8 pts
- HATES 8 pts
- HAUTE 8 pts
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- THESE 8 pts
- UVEAS 8 pts
- VATUS 8 pts
- VESTA 8 pts
- VISTA 8 pts
- VITAE 8 pts
- ETUIS 5 pts
- SAUTE 5 pts
- SETAE 5 pts
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- SUITE 5 pts
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4-letter words
78 words- VEXT 14 pts
- AXES 11 pts
- AXIS 11 pts
- EAUX 11 pts
- EXES 11 pts
- EXIT 11 pts
- SEXT 11 pts
- TAXI 11 pts
- HAVE 10 pts
- HIVE 10 pts
- SHIV 10 pts
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3-letter words
54 words- HEX 13 pts
- AXE 10 pts
- SAX 10 pts
- SEX 10 pts
- SIX 10 pts
- TAX 10 pts
- TIX 10 pts
- AHI 6 pts
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- ETH 6 pts
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- ITS 3 pts
- SAE 3 pts
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- TAE 3 pts
- TAS 3 pts
- TAU 3 pts
- TEA 3 pts
- TEE 3 pts
- TES 3 pts
- TIE 3 pts
- TIS 3 pts
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