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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Characterized by attention to detail: blow-by-blow, circumstantial, detailed, full, minute2, particular. See SPECIFIC. 2. Covering all aspects with painstaking accuracy: all-out, complete, exhaustive, full-dress, intensive, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced. See BIG, CAREFUL. 3. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, all-out, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.
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