the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Serving or tending to exhaust; exhibiting all the facts or arguments.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Exhausting; tending to exhaust; exhausting all parts or phases; thorough: specifically applied to a disquisition, treatise, criticism, etc., which treats of a subject in such a way as to leave no part of it unexamined.
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adj. performed comprehensively and completely
Word Usage
"Nor am I the mighty-brained kind, who knows every system in exhaustive detail and who can explain the thematic differences between 3rd and 4th edition."