full
/fʊl/ adjective, adverb, noun, verb, proper noun
Forms fuller fullest fulls fulling fulled
- adjective Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available. “The jugs were full to the point of overflowing.”
- adjective Complete; with nothing omitted. “Our book gives full treatment to the subject of angling.”
- adjective (category theory, of a functor between locally small categories) Surjective as a map of morphisms
- adjective (category theory, of a subcategory S of C) 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.
- adjective Total, entire. “She had tattoos the full length of her arms. He was prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
- adjective Completely empowered, authorized or qualified (in some role); not limited. “full member”
- adjective (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete. “"I'm full," he said, pushing back from the table.”
- adjective (informal, with "of") Replete, abounding with. “This movie doesn't make sense; it's full of plot holes.”
- adverb (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
- noun Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill. “I was fed to the full.”
- noun (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
- noun (gymnastics) A flip involving a complete turn in midair.
- noun (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.
- verb (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
- verb (transitive) To baptise.
- verb To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing; to waulk or walk.
- proper noun A surname from German.
Synonyms
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 full moon full-of-the-moon full phase of the moon wax replete good broad wide wide-cut fully
Antonyms
empty incomplete partial hungry starving close-fitting small tight tight-fitting thin
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.
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.
From Middle English fullen, fulwen (“to baptise”), from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from full- + *wīhan (later *wēon (“to make holy”)). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).
From Middle English fullen (“to full”), from Anglo-Norman fuller, fuler, Middle French foller, fouler, from Old French foler, fouler (“to tread, stamp, full”), from Medieval Latin fullāre, from Latin fullō (“a fuller”). Compare Old English fullian (“to full”).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; --said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people.
- adjective Abundantly furnished or provided; sufficient in. quantity, quality, or degree; copious; plenteous; ample; adequate; as, a full meal; a full supply; a full voice; a full compensation; a house full of furniture.
- noun Complete measure; utmost extent; the highest state or degree.
- adverb Quite; to the same degree; without abatement or diminution; with the whole force or effect; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
Etymology [OE. & AS. ful; akin to OS. ful, D. vol, OHG. fol, G. voll, Icel. fullr, Sw. full, Dan. fuld, Goth. fulls, L. plenus, Gr. p, pr to fill, also to Gr. poly-, pref., G. viel, AS. fela. sq. root80. Cf. Complete, Fill, Plenary, Plenty.]
Etymology [OE. fullen, OF. fuler, fouler, F. fouler, LL. fullare, fr. L. fullo fuller, cloth fuller, cf. Gr. fullian to whiten as a fuller, to baptize, fullere a fuller. Cf. Defile to foul, Foil to frustrate, Fuller. n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “full”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details