Dictionary Definition
full adj
1 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" [ant: empty]
2 constituting the full quantity or extent;
complete; "an entire town devastated by an earthquake"; "gave full
attention"; "a total failure" [syn: entire, total]
3 complete in extent or degree and in every
particular; "a full game"; "a total eclipse"; "a total disaster"
[syn: total]
4 filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a
full stomach" [syn: replete(p)]
5 (of sound) having marked depth and body; "full
tones"; "a full voice" [ant: thin]
6 having the normally expected amount; "gives
full measure"; "gives good measure"; "a good mile from here" [syn:
good]
7 being at a peak or culminating point; "broad
day"; "full summer"; "high noon" [syn: broad(a), full(a)]
8 not separated into parts or shares;
constituting an undivided unit; "an undivided interest in the
property"; "a full share" [syn: undivided]
9 having ample fabric; "the current taste for
wide trousers"; "a full skirt" [syn: wide, wide-cut] adv : 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"
[syn: fully, to the
full]
Verb
1 beat for the purpose of cleaning and
thickening; "full the cloth"
2 make (a garment) fuller by pleating or
gathering
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /fʊl/, /fUl/
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- Rhymes: -ʊl
Etymology 1
fullAdjective
en-adj er- 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.
- She had tattoos the full length of her arms.
- 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
- fill
- -ful
- fully
- fullness
- fulfil
- full beam
- fullblood, full-blood, full blood
- full-blown
- full-bodied
- full-dress
- full house
- full marks
- full moon
- full name
- fullscale
- full stop
- to the full
Translations
containing the maximum possible amount
- Afrikaans: vol
- Albanian: plot
- Catalan: ple
- Croatian: pun
- Danish: fuld, fyldt
- Dutch: vol
- Esperanto: plena
- Finnish: täysi
- French: plein
- German: voll
- Greek: πλήρης, γεμάτος
- Hebrew: מלא (mal'e)
- Hungarian: tele
- Indonesian: penuh
- Irish: lán
- Italian: pieno
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: پڕ
- Lithuanian: pilnas
- Polish: pełny
- Portuguese: cheio
- Romanian: plin
- Russian: полный
- Sardinian: prenu
- Slovenian: poln
- Spanish: lleno
- Swedish: full
- Welsh: llawn
complete
- Afrikaans: volle
- Catalan: complet , completa
- Danish: fuldstændig, komplet
- Dutch: volledig
- Esperanto: plena
- Finnish: täydellinen
- French: complet, complète
- Indonesian: lengkap
- Italian: completo, completa
- Polish: pełny
- Portuguese: completo, completa
- Russian: полный
- Spanish: completo, completa
- Swedish: fullödig, fullständig
total, entire
- Afrikaans: volle
- Catalan: total, sencer , sencera
- Danish: fuld
- Dutch: vol, volledig
- Esperanto: tuta
- Finnish: koko, kokonainen
- French: total, totale, entier, entière
- Indonesian: menyeluruh
- Italian: totale, intero, intera
- Polish: pełny
- Portuguese: total, inteiro , inteira
- Russian: полный, целый
- Spanish: entero, entera
satisfied, in relation to eating
of a garment
- Danish: vid
- Dutch: ruim, wijd
- Finnish: väljä
rich tones
Translations to be checked
- ttbc Chinese: 充分的
- ttbc Ido: plena
- ttbc Japanese: 満ちた (みちた, micita), 一杯 (いっぱい, ippai) (2), 完全な
- ttbc Korean: 충분한
- ttbc Kurdish (Kurmancî): tijî, mişt
- ttbc Malagasy: feno, voky (2); (Sakalava & Tsimiety Malagasy) vôky (2)
- ttbc Manx: lane
- ttbc Mongolian: цадсан (2)
- ttbc Scottish Gaelic: làn, lìonta
- ttbc Sicilian: chinu , china
- ttbc Spanish: completo , completa
Translations
Derived terms
See also
Catalan
Etymology
folium, leafNoun
full- sheet of paper
Old English
Adjective
full- full
Swedish
Etymology
Old Norse fullrPronunciation
- Pronunciation /fɵl/ Audio
Adjective
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- drunk
Extensive Definition
Full may refer to the following:
full in Italian: Full
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
SRO, a
great deal, abounding,
absolute, absorbed, abundant, addled, adipose, affluent, all-encompassing,
all-inclusive, all-sufficing, allayed, altogether, ample, amplitude, aplenty, awash, bang, beefy, beery, bemused, besotted, big, big-bellied, blazing, blind drunk, blinding, bloated, blocked, blow-by-blow, blowzy, booming, bosomy, bottomless, bound, bounteous, bountiful, brawny, bright, brilliant, brimful, brimming, bristling, broad, broad-bodied, built, bulging, bulky, bullnecked, burly, bursting, busty, buxom, capacity, chock-full, choked, choked up, chubby, chuck-full, chunky, clogged, clogged up, close, cloyed, coarse, colored, compact, complete, completely, comprehensive, concerned, congested, congestion, consequential, considerable, constipated, consumed, copious, corpulent, costive, cram-full, crammed, crapulent, crapulous, crass, crawling, crowded, curvaceous, damned, dazzling, deafening, deep, deep-colored, dense, detailed, developed, diffuse, directly, disgusted, distended, dizzy, drenched, drunk, drunken, dumpy, dyed, ear-piercing, ear-rending,
ear-splitting, earthshaking, effuse, emotional, engaged, engorged, engrossed, enormously, entire, entirely, epidemic, exact, exactly, exceedingly, exhaustive, exhaustless, expansive, extensive, extravagant, extreme, exuberant, far-gone, farci, fat, fattish, fed-up, fertile, filled, filled out, finicky, firm, fleshy, flood tide, flush, flustered, forte, fortissimo, fou, foul, fouled, full of, full to
bursting, full-bodied, full-colored, full-fledged, full-grown,
full-scale, fullness,
fully, fussy, galore, gay, generous, giddy, glaring, global, glorious, glutted, gorged, grand, grave, great, greatest, greatly, gross, happy, harsh, heavy, heavyset, hefty, high tide, high water,
highest, hippy, hued, hugely, illimitable, imbued, immersed, impletion, imposing, in Technicolor, in
color, in full, in its entirety, in liquor, in plenty, in quantity,
in toto, inebriate,
inebriated, inebrious, inexhaustible, infarcted, intact, integral, intense, intoxicated, irresistible, itemized, jaded, jam-packed, jammed, jolly, kerplunk, lavish, liberal, limitless, loaded, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, lusty, luxuriant, main, many, massive, mature, matured, maudlin, maximal, maximum, meaty, mellow, merry, meticulous, mighty, minute, much, muddled, nappy, nice, no strings, numerous, obese, obsessed, obstipated, obstructed, occupied, open, opulent, overfed, overflowing, overfull, overfullness, overgorged, oversaturated, overstuffed, overweight, packed, packed like sardines,
particular, particularized, paunchy, pealing, perfect, perfectly, picayune, piercing, plangent, plenary, plenitude, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, plethora, plop, plugged, plugged up, plumb, plump, plunk, podgy, point-blank, populous, portly, potbellied, powerful, precise, precisely, preoccupied, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, pudgy, puffy, pulsing, pursy, quite, rampant, ready to burst,
reeling, replete, repletion, resonant, resonating, resounding, revealing, rich, rife, right, ringing, riotous, ripe, robust, rolling, roly-poly, roomy, rotund, round, rounded out, running over,
sated, satiate, satiated, satiety, satisfied, saturated, saturation, saturation point,
sentimental,
serious, serried, shapely, shikker, shining, sick of, slaked, slap, smack, smack-dab, soaked, sodden, solid, sonorous, sotted, sound, spacious, spang, special, specific, spring tide, square, squarely, squat, squatty, stacked, stained, stalwart, standing room only,
stentoraphonic,
stentorian, stentorious, stocky, stopped, stopped up, stout, straight, strapping, strong, stuffed, stuffed up, superabundant, supersaturated, surfeit, surfeited, swarming, swollen, teeming, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, thorough, thoroughly,
three-dimensional, throbbing, thunderous, tiddly, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinted, tipsy, tired of, to the full, to
the utmost, toned,
tonitruant, tonitruous, top, top-heavy, topful, total, totally, trig, tubby, unabbreviated, unabridged, unbound, unbounded, uncensored, uncircumscribed,
unconditional,
unconditioned,
uncut, under the
influence, undiminished, undimmed, unequivocal, unexpurgated, unlimited, unmeasured, unobscured, unqualified, unrestricted, unshaded, unshortened, utmost, utter, very, vibrant, vibrating, viscous, vivid, voluptuous, wash-colored,
wealthy, well-built,
well-fed, well-found, well-furnished, well-proportioned,
well-provided, well-rounded, well-shaped, well-stacked,
well-stocked, whole,
wholesale, wholly, wide, wide-open, widespread, window-rattling,
with a bellyful, with a snootful, with enough of, without strings,
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