1. A workman who fulls (cleans and thickens) freshly woven cloth for a living
   "The fuller used various techniques to improve the texture and durability of the wool cloth"

1. United States jurist and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1833-1910)
   - Melville Fuller, Melville W. Fuller, Melville Weston Fuller
    
2. United States architect who invented the geodesic dome (1895-1983)
   - Buckminster Fuller, R. Buckminster Fuller, Richard Buckminster Fuller

1. 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"
    
2. Complete, with no part missing or lacking
   "The full amount was paid";
   - entire, total
    
3. Filled to satisfaction with food or drink
   "a full stomach";
   - replete
    
4. Having the normally expected amount
   "gives full measure";
   - good
    
5. (of sound) having marked deepness and body
   "full tones"; "a full voice"
    
6. Being at a peak or culminating point
   "full summer";
   - broad
    
7. Having ample fabric
   "a full skirt";
   - wide, wide-cut

Derived forms: fullers

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: applied scientist, architect, chief justice, designer, engineer, technologist, working person

Antonym: empty, thin

Encyclopedia: Fuller, Minneapolis