English Explanatory Dictionary

full

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
  2. Complete; with nothing omitted.
  3. Surjective as a map of morphisms
  4. Including all morphisms. Formally: Such that for every pairs of objects (X, Y) in S, the hom-sets operatorname Hom_S(X,Y) and operatorname Hom_C(X,Y) are equal.
  5. Total, entire.
  6. Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
  7. Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
  8. Replete, abounding with.
  9. Carrying as much as possible.
  10. Plump, round.
  11. Having its entire face illuminated.
  12. Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
adv
  1. Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
noun
  1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
  2. The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
  3. A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
  4. An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
verb
  1. To become full or wholly illuminated.
verb
  1. To baptise.
verb
  1. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
name
  1. A surname from German.

Pronunciation

fo͝ol /fʊl/ [fʊɫ] /fʉl/ en-us-full.ogg EN-AU ck1 full.ogg

Word forms

full fuller more full fullest most full fulls fulling fulled

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.

Synonyms

complete thorough 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 pregnant entire total baggy big large loose outsized oversized voluminous glutted gorged sated satiate satiated satisfied drunk tuck walk waulk

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

Translations

Afrikaans: volle Armenian: ամբողջական Azerbaijani: tam Azerbaijani: dolğun Bashkir: тулы Bulgarian: цялостен Catalan: complet Chinese Cantonese: 完全 Chinese Mandarin: 完全 Czech: úplný Czech: kompletní Danish: fuldstændig Danish: komplet Dutch: volledig Esperanto: plena Finnish: täydellinen French: complet Galician: completo Georgian: სრული German: komplett German: vollständig Ido: plena Ido: kompleta Indonesian: lengkap Irish: lán Irish: líonmhar Italian: completo Japanese: 完全 Korean: 완전하다 Northern Kurdish: temam Kyrgyz: лык Malay: penuh Manx: lane Khiamniungan Naga: chāh Norwegian: fullstendig Norwegian: komplett Old Church Slavonic: пльнъ Polish: pełny Portuguese: completo Romanian: complet Romanian: terminat Russian: по́лный Scottish Gaelic: làn Scottish Gaelic: lìonta Spanish: completo Spanish: alunado Swedish: fullödig Swedish: fullständig Telugu: సంపూర్ణము Vietnamese: đầy đủ Vietnamese: toàn phần Welsh: llawn
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