- Containing as much or as many as is possible or normal
"a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing"; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"
- Complete, with no part missing or lacking
"The full amount was paid";
- entire, total
- Filled to satisfaction with food or drink
"a full stomach";
- replete
- Having the normally expected amount
"gives full measure";
- good
- (of sound) having marked deepness and body
"full tones"; "a full voice"
- Being at a peak or culminating point
"full summer";
- broad
- Having ample fabric
"a full skirt";
- wide, wide-cut
- To the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely
"knew full well"; "full-grown"; "full-fledged"; "They enjoyed the experience to the full";
- fully, to the full
- The time when the Moon is fully illuminated
"the moon is at the full"; "Werewolf legends often involve transformations during the full moon";
- full moon, full-of-the-moon, full phase of the moon
- Beat for the purpose of cleaning and thickening
"full the cloth"
- Make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
"The dressmaker fulled the skirt to create more volume"
- Increase in phase
"The moon fulled as the month progressed";
- wax
Derived forms: fuller, fulled, fulls, fullest, fulling
See also: afloat, air-filled, ample, awash, booming, brimful, brimming, chockablock [informal], chock-a-block [informal], chocker [informal], chockers [informal], chockful, chock-full, choke-full [rare], chuck-full [rare], complete, congested, copious, cram full, egg-filled, engorged, filled, flooded, fraught, fullness, fulness, gas-filled, glutted, grumbling, heavy, high, imbued, instinct, inundated, laden, ladened [rare], loaded, nourished, orotund, overflowing, overfull, overladen, overloaded, pear-shaped, plangent, plenteous [literary], plentiful, 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
Part of: month
Encyclopedia: Full, Stephen