fully
In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
Adverb
- In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
- He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
- As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and...
- The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule. - 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The...
Synonyms: sufficiently perfectly completely entirely
- Used as an intensifier for a quantity.
- it was fully four hours before we arrived home.
- At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high. In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the...
- Exactly, equally.
- It is fully as shocking as it is meant to be. You step into a pitch black chamber, treading on what feels like a perilous cattle grid, which seems to trigger the crackling circle of white light that starts into life...
- So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.
- to eat fully
- Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.
- I fully woke up at like 12 p.m. yesterday.
- When Ms. Dunham was given a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a therapist asked her to picture a soothing location. "I fully just imagined Eloise's home at the Plaza," she said. - 2015 March 22, Michael...
- We initially see the full look, but when the camera cuts to another angle of Serena checking her phone and holding a bag, it's clear Blake is fully wearing sweatpants under her dress. - 2023 January 30, Mehera Bonner,...
Origin
From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe (“fully”), equivalent to full + -ly. Compare German völlig (“fully”), Swedish fullt (“fully”).
Forms
Derived
fully-automatic fully automatic time fully briefed fully committed fully faithful fully fashioned fully-fitted fully fledged fully-fledged fully-grown fully-loaded fully qualified domain name fully qualified hostname fully rigged fully-rigged fully-stocked fully well unfully
Verb
- To commit or send someone to trial.
- So I got run in, and was tried at Marylebone and remanded for a week, and then fullied (fully committed for trial), and got this stretch and a half. - 1879 October, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language”, in...
- He made the same reply when he was asked if he had anything to say before being committed; and straightway was "fullied." He lurched serenely out of the dock, waving his cap […] - 1896, Arthur Morrison, A Child of the...
- That would have stirred them up a bit — Charles Pearce in court! Instead of which he was John Ward, and if he was fullied he'd probably get seven years at the most five, perhaps — and then he could be ill and be...
Origin
A reference to the phrase "the prisoner was fully committed for trial".