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all the way

ADJECTIVE
thoroughpaced
Synonyms
WEAK
absolute all-embracing all-inclusive all-out assiduous blow-by-blow careful circumstantial clocklike complete comprehensive conscientious detailed efficient exact exhaustive from A to Z full full dress in-depth intensive itemized meticulous minute painstaking particular particularized plenty royal scrupulous slam-bang soup to nuts sweeping thoroughgoing tough whole-hog
ADJECTIVE
thorough/thoroughgoing
Synonyms
WEAK
absolute all-embracing all-inclusive all-out assiduous blow-by-blow careful circumstantial clocklike complete comprehensive conscientious detailed efficient exact from A to Z full full dress in-depth intensive itemized meticulous minute painstaking particular particularized plenty royal scrupulous slam-bang soup to nuts sweeping tough whole-hog
Antonyms
WEAK
deficient imperfect inadequate incomplete inexhaustive partial superficial unfinished
ADVERB
completely
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absolutely altogether comprehensively effectively entirely finally fully perfectly quite thoroughly totally ultimately unconditionally utterly wholly
WEAK
competently conclusively en masse exclusively exhaustively extensively from A to Z from beginning to end hook, line, and sinker in all in entirety in full in toto on all counts painstakingly solidly to the end to the limit to the max to the nth degree unabridged unanimously undividedly with heart and soul without omission
Antonyms
STRONGEST
inadequately incompletely partially partly
ADVERB
flat-out
Synonyms
WEAK
all-out at a good clip for all one's worth full blast head over heels in full gallop lickety-split the whole nine yards to the max unrestrainedly wide open without reservation
ADVERB
fully
Synonyms
STRONGEST
absolutely entirely perfectly positively quite thoroughly totally wholly
WEAK
all out altogether every inch from A to Z from soup to nuts intimately outright royal through and through utterly with heart and soul without exaggeration
Antonyms
STRONGEST
incompletely partially
WEAK
inadequately insufficiently partly
ADVERB
intensively
Synonyms
STRONGEST
competently comprehensively effectively exclusively exhaustively extensively fully thoroughly
WEAK
absolutely altogether conclusively en masse finally from A to Z from beginning to end hook, line, and sinker in all in and out in entirety in full in toto inside out on all counts painstakingly perfectly quite solidly to the end to the limit to the max to the nth degree totally ultimately unabridged unanimously unconditionally undividedly up and down utterly wholly with heart and soul without omission
Antonyms
STRONGEST
inadequately incompletely partially
ADVERB
right
Synonyms
STRONGEST
clear
STRONG
altogether bang correctly sharp well
WEAK
absolutely completely entirely exactly factually fully genuinely just perfectly quite smack-dab squarely thoroughly totally truly utterly wholly
Antonyms
WEAK
inaccurately inappropriately incorrectly indirectly unfairly unjustly unsuitably wrongly
ADVERB
wholly
Synonyms
STRONGEST
altogether completely entirely fully perfectly quite thoroughly totally utterly
STRONG
all
WEAK
all in all comprehensively from A to Z hook, line, and sinker in every respect in toto one-hundred percent outright roundly top to bottom well with heart and soul
Antonyms
STRONGEST
inadequately incompletely partially partly
WEAK
inclusively
NOUN
culmination
Synonyms
STRONGEST
apex climax completion pinnacle
STRONG
acme apogee consummation crown finale finish height limit maximum meridian noon payoff peak perfection summit top zenith
WEAK
blow off capper critical mass crowning touch ne plus ultra punch line
Antonyms
STRONGEST
anticlimax nadir
STRONG
base beginning bottom introduction start
WEAK
commencement opening

Example Sentences

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“We’ll be able to do a demonstration drive of full autonomy all the way from L.A. to New York.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

I like to call it A to Z, Abigail Spanberger and Andy Beshear representing one end of the tent, all the way over to Zohran Mamdani at the other.

From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026

The CME FedWatch tool External link on Friday showed the federal-funds target range remaining stuck at 3.50% to 3.75% all the way through April 2027.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

"Get it on time. But if you can't, do get vaccinated all the way through the third trimester."

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

I hadn’t all the way decided that before I typed those words, but as soon as I see them on the screen, I know they’re true.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison