full
See also: Full, full-, fúll, and -full
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: fo͝ol, IPA(key): /fʊl/, [fʊɫ]
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ʊl
Etymology 1
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, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa). See also fele.
Adjective
full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- 2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
- 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.
- Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.
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- Total, entire.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- '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.
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- Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited.
- full member
- full officer
- (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- "I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.
- (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
- This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.
- I prefer my pizzas full of toppings.
- (of physical features) Plump, round.
- full lips; a full face; a full figure
- (of the moon) Having its entire face illuminated.
- 1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82:
- 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.
- 1969, Alan S. Feinstein, Folk tales from Siam, page 82:
- (of garments) Of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- a full pleated skirt; She needed her full clothing during her pregnancy.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- a full singing voice
- (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Studies”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:
- Reading maketh a full man.
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- Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
- She's full of her latest project.
- 1693, [John Locke], “§7”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482:
- Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.
- Filled with emotions.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
- The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
- (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
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- (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
- nines full of aces (three nines and two aces)
- I'll beat him with my kings full! (three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank)
- (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
- 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?
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
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
- (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk
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
Derived terms
- at full stretch
- at full throttle
- at full tilt
- chock-a-block full
- chocked full
- chock 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
- full adder
- full agricultural tenancy
- full AI
- full and by
- full angle
- full artificial intelligence
- full as a goog
- full as a tick
- full-back
- full back
- full bar
- full bathroom
- full beam
- full-bearded
- full bikini wax
- full binary tree
- full bird colonel
- full blast
- fullblood
- full-blood
- full blood
- full-blooded
- full-blown
- full blue
- full board
- full boat
- full-bodied
- full-body
- full body scanner
- full-bore
- full bore
- full-born
- full-bosomed
- full-bound
- full breakfast
- full-brother
- full-burn
- full butt
- full-butt
- full circle
- full clew
- full colonel
- full combo
- full count
- full-course yellow
- full-court press
- full court press
- full cousin
- full-deckism
- full deckism
- full disclosure
- full dive
- full dress
- full dress uniform
- full-driven
- full duplex
- full employment
- full English
- full English breakfast
- full-eyed
- full-face
- full-faced
- full-fat
- 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-handed
- full-handedly
- full-handedness
- full-hearted
- full-heartedly
- full-heartedness
- full-hot
- full house
- full infinitive
- fullish
- full join
- full-length
- full-line forcing
- full-looking
- full-made
- 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 of beans
- 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 the devil
- full of the joys of spring
- full on
- full-on
- full-out
- full out
- full outer join
- full-page
- full pelt
- full-point
- full point
- full-powered
- full price
- full rhyme
- full ride
- full-rigged
- full sail
- fullscale
- full-scale
- full score
- full screen
- full service
- full-service
- full-sibling
- full sibling
- full-sister
- full-size
- fullsome (often a misspelling)
- full-souled
- full spectrum superiority
- full-spectrum superiority
- full speed ahead
- full stack
- full-stack
- full steam
- full steam ahead
- full stop
- full-stretch
- full-summed
- full swap
- full take
- full term
- full-throated
- full throttle
- full-throttle
- full tilt
- full-tilt boogie
- full tilt boogie
- full time
- full-time
- full-time equivalent
- full-timer
- full to overflowing
- full toss
- full to the gills
- full verb
- full whack
- full-width
- fully
- full-zip
- glass-half-full
- half full
- have full hands
- have one's hands full
- ideographic full stop
- I'm full
- in full cry
- in full feather
- in full fig
- in full flow
- in full force
- 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
- on a full stomach
- one brick short of a full load
- one card shy of a full deck
- overfull
- play full
- play with a full deck
- rap-full
- see the glass half-full
- the full quid
- the full shilling
- to the full
- triple-full
Related terms
- fill
- -ful
- fulfil
- fulsome
- fulth
Descendants
- → Gulf Arabic: فُل (ful)
- → Japanese: フル
Translations
containing the maximum possible amount
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complete
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total, entire
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satisfied, in relation to eating
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of a garment: ample, wide
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having depth and body
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Adverb
full (not comparable)
- (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Prospero:
I have done nothing but in care of thee,
Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who
Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing
Of whence I am, nor that I am more better
Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,
And thy no greater father.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- […] full in the centre of the sacred wood
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112
- You know full well what makes me look so pale.
- 1880, 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,
- This cupboard […]
- 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, […]
- It is full strange to him who hears and feels,
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, OCLC 1167497017:
- I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].
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Derived terms
- full-grown
- full well
Etymology 2
From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.
Noun
full (plural fulls)
- Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:
- The swan's-down feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide.
- 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis; John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Third Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], OCLC 80026745:
- Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull,
Are emblems, rather than express the full
Of what he feels.
- I was fed to the full.
- 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:
- […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
- 2008, Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories:
- 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.
- 2010, C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel:
- When he had eaten his full, they set to work again.
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- (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
- 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.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
- (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
Derived terms
- at full, at the full
- in full
- to the full
(freestyle skiing):
- 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
utmost measure or extent
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phase of the moon — see full moon
Verb
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
- (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
- The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.
- 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:
- "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"
- 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:
- "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
Etymology 3
From Middle English fullen (“to baptise”), fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
Verb
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
- (transitive) To baptise.
- 1610 October, John Foxe, “An Old Ancient Writing Intituled, The Praier and Complaint of the Ploughman”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], volume I, 6th edition, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, OCLC 81611923, book V, page 373, column 2:
- And thy diſciples fulleden men in thy name, in forgiueneſſe of her ſinnes.
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Derived terms
- fulling
Translations
to baptise — see baptise
Etymology 4
From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Middle French fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).
Verb
full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)
- To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
- Synonyms: walk, waulk
Derived terms
- fuller
- fuller's earth
- fulling mill
Translations
to make cloth denser
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Catalan
Etymology
From Latin folium (“leaf”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈfuʎ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -uʎ
Noun
full m (plural fulls)
- sheet of paper
Related terms
- fulla
Further reading
- “full” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ful/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English full.
Adjective
full (plural fulls)
- (Quebec) full
- (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded
Adverb
full
- (Quebec) very, really
- C'est full poche, ça ! ― That really sucks!
Etymology 2
From English full house.
Noun
full m (plural fulls)
- (poker) full house
Further reading
- “full”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
From English full house.
Noun
full m (invariable)
- (card games, poker) full house, boat
Middle English
Adjective
full
- Alternative form of ful
Verb
full
- Alternative form of fullen (“to full”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Danish fuld, from Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Swedish full, Norwegian Nynorsk full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʉl/
Audio (file)
Adjective
full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- drunk
Derived terms
Terms derived from full
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Related terms
- fylle
See also
- -full (Bokmål)
References
- “full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐍃 (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic плънъ (plŭnŭ), Latin plēnus, Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fʊlː/
Adjective
full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- Glaset er fullt. ― The glass is full.
- drunk
- Ho drakk seg full på raudvin. ― She got drunk on red wine.
- complete, total
- Han har full kontroll. ― He is in total control.
Derived terms
- -full
- fullasta
- fullblods
- fullmåne
- fullstendig
- fullverdig
- halvfull
- stappfull
Related terms
- fylla
- fylle
References
- “full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /full/, [fuɫ]
Etymology 1
From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from *pleh₁- (“to fill”).
Alternative forms
- ful
Adjective
full
- full, filled, complete, entire
Declension
Declension of full — Strong
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | full | full | full |
| Accusative | fulne | fulle | full |
| Genitive | fulles | fulre | fulles |
| Dative | fullum | fulre | fullum |
| Instrumental | fulle | fulre | fulle |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | fulle | fulla, fulle | full |
| Accusative | fulle | fulla, fulle | full |
| Genitive | fulra | fulra | fulra |
| Dative | fullum | fullum | fullum |
| Instrumental | fullum | fullum | fullum |
Declension of full — Weak
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fulla | fulle | fulle |
| Accusative | fullan | fullan | fulle |
| Genitive | fullan | fullan | fullan |
| Dative | fullan | fullan | fullan |
| Instrumental | fullan | fullan | fullan |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | fullan | fullan | fullan |
| Accusative | fullan | fullan | fullan |
| Genitive | fulra, fullena | fulra, fullena | fulra, fullena |
| Dative | fullum | fullum | fullum |
| Instrumental | fullum | fullum | fullum |
Derived terms
- fullīċe
- fyllan
- fyllu
Descendants
- Middle English: ful, fol, full, vol, vul
- English: full
- Scots: fou, full
- Yola: vull
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *fullą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pēl(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).
Alternative forms
- ful
Noun
full n
- a beaker
- a cup, especially one with liquor in it
Declension
Declension of full (strong a-stem)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | full | full |
| accusative | full | full |
| genitive | fulles | fulla |
| dative | fulle | fullum |
Old Norse
Adjective
full
- inflection of fullr:
- strong feminine nominative singular
- strong neuter nominative/accusative plural
Spanish
Noun
full m (plural full)
- (poker) full house
Further reading
- “full”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɵl/
Audio (file)
Adjective
full
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- drunk, intoxicated
- Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna
Declension
| Inflection of full | |||
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| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | full | fullare | fullast |
| Neuter singular | fullt | fullare | fullast |
| Plural | fulla | fullare | fullast |
| Masculine plural3 | fulle | fullare | fullast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | fulle | fullare | fullaste |
| All | fulla | fullare | fullaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Derived terms
- handfull
Related terms
- fylla