full

Meanings

Adjective

• Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
• Complete; with nothing omitted.
• Total, entire.
• Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
• Replete, abounding with.
• Plump, round.
• Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
• Having depth and body; rich.
• Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
• Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.
• Filled with emotions.
• Impregnated; made pregnant.
• Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.
• Drunk, intoxicated.

Adverb

• Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

Noun

• Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
• The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
• An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

Verb

• To become full or wholly illuminated.
• To baptise.
• To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Related

Similar words

• 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, thorough
• entire, total
• glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
• baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
• to walk, waulk

Opposite words

• empty
• incomplete
• partial
• empty, hungry, starving
• close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

Origin

• From Middle English ful, from Old English full, from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.
• 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, Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر, Sanskrit पूर्ण. See also fele.
• From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo, from Proto-Germanic *fullį̄, *fulnō, from Proto-Indo-European *plūno-, *plno-, from *pelh₁-, *pleh₁-. Cognate with German Fülle, Icelandic fylli. More at fill.
• From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian, from Proto-Germanic *fullawīhōną, from *fulla- + *wīhōną. Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht.
• From Middle English, from Old French fuller, fouler, from Medieval Latin fullo, from Latin fullo.