full
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish full. Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá).
See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "drunk, intoxicated" sense, compare also Swedish full and other Scandinavian languages.
Inflected forms:
form: fuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more full
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most full
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fulled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
pos: adj
examples: The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
gloss: Complete; with nothing omitted.
pos: adj
examples: Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
Anybody can cure a curable disease if he happens to have the right drug at hand, but the treatment of a condition for which there is no positive cure makes much greater demands on the doctor, who has to be practical pharmacologist, human being, psychiatrist, and father confessor—he has, in fact, to be a proper physician in the fullest sense of the word.
Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
gloss: Complete; with nothing omitted.
pos: adj
gloss: Complete; with nothing omitted.
pos: adj
gloss: Total, entire.
pos: adj
examples: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
gloss: Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
pos: adj
examples: full member
full officer
gloss: Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
gloss: Replete, abounding with.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
gloss: Carrying as much as possible.
pos: adj
tags: in-plural
informal
examples: Hang on - my hands are full; just let me put these down.
gloss: Plump, round.
pos: adj
examples: full lips; a full face; a full figure
gloss: Having its entire face illuminated.
pos: adj
examples: For on those evenings, when the moon is full and bright and clear, mothers and fathers in Siam tell their children to look up at the moon and then ask them what they see there.
gloss: Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
pos: adj
examples: a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
gloss: Having depth and body; rich.
pos: adj
examples: a full singing voice
gloss: Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Reading maketh a full man.
gloss: Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
pos: adj
examples: She's full of her latest project.
Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
gloss: Filled with emotions.
pos: adj
examples: The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
gloss: Impregnated; made pregnant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
gloss: Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
examples: nines full of aces
I'll beat him with my kings full!
gloss: Drunk, intoxicated.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
examples: Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?
gloss: Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
pos: noun
examples: The swan's-down feather,
 That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull,
 Are emblems, rather than express the full
 Of what he feels.
I was fed to the full.
[…] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.
When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
gloss: The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
pos: noun
examples: It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: …
a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.
gloss: A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
pos: noun
gloss: An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
pos: noun
gloss: To become full or wholly illuminated.
pos: verb
examples: The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
Synonyms: complete
thorough
glutted
gorged
sated
satiate
satiated
satisfied
stuffed
Antonyms: empty
incomplete
partial
hungry
starving
close-fitting
small
tight
tight-fitting
Related words: fill
-ful
fulfil
fulsome
fulth
Derived words: at full pelt
at full stretch
at full throttle
at full tilt
bankfull
bowl full
bowl-full
bung-full
chock-a-block full
chocked full
chock full
choke-full
choke full
chuck full
chuck-full
come full circle
cram-full
double-full
few cards short of a full deck
few cards shy of a full deck
fouth
full adder
full agricultural tenancy
full AI
full and by
full angle
full artificial intelligence
full as a boot
full as a goog
full as a tick
full-back
full back
fullback
full bar
full bathroom
full-beam.full beam
full-bearded
full bed
full bikini wax
full binary tree
full bird
full bird colonel
full blast
fullblood
full-blood
full blood
full blood count
full-blooded
full-blown
full blue
full board
full boat
full-bodied
full-bodied money
full-body
full-body day
full body scanner
full-body scanner
full-bore
full bore
full-born
full-bosomed
full-bound
full breakfast
full-breasted
full-brother
full bunger
full-burn
full butt
full-butt
full choke
full circle
full clew
full colonel
full color
full combo
full count
full-course dinner
full-course meal
full-course yellow
fullcourt
full court press
full-court press
full cousin
full cream milk
full debut
full-deckism
full deckism
full disclosure
full dive
full dress
full-dressed
full dress uniform
full-driven
full duplex
full eagle
full eagle colonel
full employment
full English
full English breakfast
full-eyed
full-face
full-faced
full faith and credit
full-fat
full fig
full-figured
full-fledged
full-fleshed
full fling
full-flowing
full-fortuned
full forward
full-frame
full-fraught
full-frontal
full frontal
full frontal nudity
full-frontal nudity
full functor
full-grade
full-grownness
full-handed
full-handedly
full-handedness
fullhead
fullhearted
full-hearted
full-heartedly
full-heartedness
full-hot
full house
full immersion
full infinitive
full Irish
full Irish breakfast
fullish
full join
full-length
full-line forcing
full-looking
full-made
fullmade
full marks
full metal jacket
full monty
full moon
full-mooned
full motion video
full-motion video
full-mouth
full-mouthed
full name
full nelson
fullness
full-nest syndrome
full nest syndrome
full of
full of beans
full of bread
full of crap
full of hot air
full of it
full of oneself
full of one's self
full of piss and vinegar
full of shit
full-of-shitness
full of the devil
full of the joys of spring
full-on
full on
full-out
full out
full outer join
full-page
full pelt
full pint
full point
full-point
full-pound
full-pounder
full-powered
full price
full process
full-proof
full rank
full ratchet
full retard
full rhyme
full ride
full-rigged
full sail
full-scale
fullscale
full score
full Scottish breakfast
fullscreen
full screen
full screw
full sea
full send
full service
full-service
fullset
fullsib
full-sibling
full sibling
full-sister
full-size
fullsome
full-souled
full-spectrum superiority
full spectrum superiority
full speed ahead
full stack
full-stack
full-stacker
fullstanding
full steam
full steam ahead
full stop
full-stop landing
full-stretch
full stroke seek time
full-summed
full swap
full take
full term
full-throated
full-throatedly
full-throttle
full throttle
full tide
full tilt
full tilt boogie
full-tilt boogie
full time
full-time
full-time equivalent
full-timer
full-tongued
full to overflowing
full toss
full to the gills
full verb
full vowel
full whack
full-width
fullwidth
fullwise
full word
fully
full-zip
glass-half-full
half full
handful
have full hands
have one's hands full
hawse-full
ideographic full stop
I'm full
in full aspect
in full chase
in full course
in full cry
in full effect
in full feather
in full fig
in full flow
in full force
in full form
in full gear
in full swing
in full view
know full well
last full measure
nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs
nonfull
nut full house
on a full stomach
one brick short of a full load
one card short of a full deck
one card shy of a full deck
overfull
play full
play with a full deck
Quiverfull
rap-full
the glass half-full
the full nine yards
the full quid
the full shilling
the full ticket
the wheel has come full circle
topfull
triple-full
underfull
unfull
to the full
at full
at the full
in full
double full
double full-full
full-double full
full-double full-full
full-full
full-full-full
lay-double full-full
lay-full
lay-full-full
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: volle
lang: Armenian
word: ամբողջական
roman: amboġǰakan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tam
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dolğun
lang: Bashkir
word: тулы
roman: tulı
lang: Bulgarian
word: цялостен
roman: cjalosten
lang: Catalan
word: complet
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 完全
roman: jyun⁴ cyun⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 完全
roman: wánquán
lang: Czech
word: úplný
lang: Czech
word: kompletní
lang: Danish
word: fuldstændig
lang: Danish
word: komplet
lang: Dutch
word: volledig
lang: Esperanto
word: plena
lang: Finnish
word: täydellinen
lang: French
word: complet
lang: Galician
word: completo
lang: Georgian
word: სრული
roman: sruli
lang: German
word: komplett
lang: German
word: vollständig
lang: Ido
word: plena
lang: Ido
word: kompleta
lang: Indonesian
word: lengkap
lang: Irish
word: lán
lang: Irish
word: líonmhar
lang: Italian
word: completo
lang: Japanese
word: 完全
roman: kanzen
lang: Korean
word: 완전하다
roman: wanjeon-hada
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: temam
lang: Kyrgyz
word: лык
roman: lık
lang: Malay
word: penuh
lang: Manx
word: lane
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: chāh
lang: Norwegian
word: fullstendig
lang: Norwegian
word: komplett
lang: Old Church Slavonic
word: пльнъ
roman: plĭnŭ
lang: Polish
word: pełny
lang: Portuguese
word: completo
lang: Romanian
word: complet
lang: Romanian
word: terminat
lang: Russian
word: по́лный
roman: pólnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: làn
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: lìonta
lang: Spanish
word: completo
lang: Swedish
word: fullödig
lang: Swedish
word: fullständig
lang: Telugu
word: సంపూర్ణము
roman: sampūrṇamu
lang: Vietnamese
word: đầy đủ
lang: Vietnamese
word: toàn phần
lang: Welsh
word: llawn
lang: Yakut
word: толору
roman: toloru
lang: Spanish
word: alunado