Full
WordNet
adjective
(1) Having the normally expected amount
"Gives full measure"
"Gives good measure"
"A good mile from here"
(2) Having ample fabric
"The current taste for wide trousers"
"A full skirt"
(3) Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
"An entire town devastated by an earthquake"
"Gave full attention"
"A total failure"
(4) Complete in extent or degree and in every particular
"A full game"
"A total eclipse"
"A total disaster"
(5) Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
"A full glass"
"A sky full of stars"
"A full life"
"The auditorium was full to overflowing"
(6) (of sound) having marked depth and body
"Full tones"
"A full voice"
(7) Filled to satisfaction with food or drink
"A full stomach"
adverb
(8) To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form)
"Fully grown"
"He didn't fully understand"
"Knew full well"
"Full-grown"
"Full-fledged"
noun
(9) The time when the moon is fully illuminated
"The moon is at the full"
verb
(10) Increase in phase
"The moon is waxing"
(11) Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
(12) Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening
"Full the cloth"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.
- The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
- Total, entire.
- She had tattoos the full length of her arms.
- He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
- satisfied, especially in relation to eating.
- "I'm full", he said, pushing back from the table.
- Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
- Having depth and body; rich.
Synonyms
- (containing the maximum possible amount): abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed
- (complete): complete, thorough
- (total): entire, total
- (satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
- (of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
Antonyms
- (containing the maximum possible amount): empty
- (complete): incomplete
- (total): partial
- (satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
- (of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting
Related terms
- fullblood, full-blood, full blood
- full-blown
- full-bodied
- full-dress
- full house
- full marks
Adverb
- Quite; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12
- This cupboard (...)
- this other one,
- His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode
- Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX
- It is full' strange to him who hears and feels,
- When wandering there in some deserted street,
- The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels,
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12
Etymology 2
Latin fullare, French fouler "to tread, stamp, full"
Verb
- To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk
See also
- Danish valke "to walk, waulk, full"
- English walk, waulk (dubious)
- German walken "to tan, waulk, full"
- Middle Dutch walken "to knead, press, full"
- Middle English walken "to roll, toss, journey about" (dubious)