exhaustive

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪv/    美 /ɪɡˈzɔstɪv/|/ɪɡˈzɑstɪv/|/ɪɡˈzoːstɪv/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Including every possible element: fully comprehensive.
    — We made an exhaustive list.
  2. Causing exhaustion; very tiring. archaic
    — Wolsey saw in what imminent peril the revenues of the Church were from the exhaustive squandering and grasping covetousness of the Court.

词形变化

more exhaustive comparative most exhaustive superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
collectively exhaustive exhaustively exhaustiveness exhaustivity inexhaustive nonexhaustive unexhaustive

词源

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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