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Adjective: full (fuller,fullest)  fûl
  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"
     
  2. Complete in extent or degree and in every particular
    "a full game";
    - total
     
  3. Constituting the full quantity or extent; complete
    "gave full attention";
    - entire, total
     
  4. Filled to satisfaction with food or drink
    "a full stomach";
    - replete
     
  5. Having the normally expected amount
    "gives full measure";
    - good
     
  6. Being at a peak or culminating point
    "full summer";
    - broad
     
  7. Having ample fabric
    "a full skirt";
    - wide, wide-cut
     
  8. (of sound) having marked deepness and body
    "full tones"; "a full voice"
Adverb: full  fûl
  1. To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely
    "knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged";
    - fully, to the full
Noun: full  fûl
  1. The time when the Moon is fully illuminated
    "the moon is at the full";
    - full moon, full-of-the-moon, full phase of the moon
Verb: full  fûl
  1. Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening
    "full the cloth"
     
  2. Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
     
  3. Increase in phase
    - wax

Derived forms: fuller, fulls, fulling, fulled, fullest

See also: afloat, air-filled, ample, awash, booming, brimful, brimfull, brimming, chockablock [informal], chock-a-block [informal], chocker [informal], chockers [informal], chockful, chock-full, choke-full, chuck-full, complete, congested, cram full, egg-filled, engorged, filled, flooded, fraught, fullness, fulness, gas-filled, glutted, grumbling, heavy, high, imbued, instinct, inundated, laden, ladened, loaded, nourished, orotund, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, pear-shaped, plangent, pregnant, replete, rich, riddled, rotund, round, rumbling, sonorous, sounding, sperm-filled, stentorian, stuffed, untasted, untouched, weighed down, well-lined, whole

Type of: alter, beat, change, increase, modify, phase of the moon

Antonym: empty, thin

Part of: month

Encyclopedia: Full, Stephen