exhaustive.

Thorough enough to address all relevant aspects or cases.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• exhaustive review
• exhaustive search

On the page

The team conducted an exhaustive search of the available records.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Comparative more exhaustive; superlative most exhaustive when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.