exhaustive

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
23
Words With Friends
24
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/
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/ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/ · /ɪɡˈzɔstɪv/ · /ɪɡˈzɑstɪv/ (US) · /ɪɡˈzoːstɪv/ · /ɘɡˈzoːstɘv/

Definition of exhaustive

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
    “We made an exhaustive list.”
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adj

  1. Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
    “We made an exhaustive list.”
  2. (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.

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