Meanings
comparative more exhaustively · superlative most exhaustively
- In an exhaustive manner.
While dictionaries might aspire to be exhaustively comprehensive, or even completist, it is doubtful whether any dictionary ever truly attempts to cover the entirety of the flora and fauna of a living language due to the overwhelming number of entries this would necessitate.
2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin an exhaustive manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
- Proto-Italic*eks
- Latinex
- Latinex-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
- Proto-Italic*auziō
- Latinhauriō
- Latinexhauriō
- Latinexhaustus
- Medieval Latinexhaustīvus
- Englishexhaustive
- Englishexhaustively
From exhaustive + -ly.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
exhaustively. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhaustively
“exhaustively.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhaustively. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “exhaustively,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/exhaustively.
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