exhaustive

English

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 *auziō

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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/
• (General American, without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɔstɪv/
  • (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzɑstɪv/

    • Audio (US):

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈzoːstɪv/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ɘɡˈzoːstɘv/
• Hyphenation: ex‧hau‧stive

Adjective

exhaustive (comparative more exhaustive, superlative most exhaustive)

1. Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.

   Synonym: all-encompassing

   Hypernyms: thorough, comprehensive; see also Thesaurus:comprehensive

   We made an exhaustive list.

2. (now rare) Causing exhaustion; very tiring.

   Synonyms: tiring, weariful; see also Thesaurus:fatiguing

   • 1878, John Henry Blunt, The Reformation of the Church of England: A. D. 1514-1547, page 98:

     Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.

   • 2013, Gloria Linkey, Native American Women: Three Who Changed History:

     Chopping and hauling wood was exhaustive work. Scraping the flesh off the heavy hides and hanging them to dry also taxed her physical strength.

Derived terms

• collectively exhaustive
• exhaustively
• exhaustiveness
• exhaustivity
• inexhaustive
• nonexhaustive
• unexhaustive

Translations

including every possible element

• Arabic: حاصر
• Armenian: սպառիչ (hy) (spaṙičʻ)
• Bulgarian: изчерпателен (bg) (izčerpatelen)
• Catalan: exhaustiu (ca)
• Czech: vyčerpávající (cs)
• Dutch: volledig (nl)
• Esperanto: ĝisfunda (eo)
• Finnish: tyhjentävä (fi)
• French: exhaustif (fr)
• Galician: exhaustivo
• German: vollständig (de), erschöpfend (de), abschließend (de)
• Greek: εξαντλητικός (el) (exantlitikós)
• Hindi: संपूर्ण (hi) (sampūrṇ), विस्तृत (hi) (vistŕt), व्यापक (hi) (vyāpak)
• Hungarian: kimerítő (hu), teljes körű
• Italian: esaustivo (it), esauriente (it)
• Occitan: exaustiu
• Polish: wyczerpujący (pl)
• Portuguese: exaustivo (pt)
• Russian: исче́рпывающий (ru) (isčérpyvajuščij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: и̏сцрпан

  Latin: ȉscrpan (sh) m

• Spanish: exhaustivo (es)
• Swedish: uttömmande (sv)
• Turkish: kapsamlı (tr), şümullü (tr) (archaic)
• Ukrainian: виче́рпний (vyčérpnyj)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zos.tiv/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: exhaustives

Adjective

exhaustive

1. feminine singular of exhaustif