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Catalan

Adjective

ful (indeclinable)

1. Of or pertaining to Fula.

Noun

ful m (uncountable)

1. Fula

Related terms

• fulbe

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *f?laz, cognate with Swedish ful, English foul, German faul, Dutch vuil.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu??l/, [?fu?l]
• Homophone: fugl

Adjective

ful (neuter fult, plural and definite singular attributive fule)

1. (dated) nasty, ugly

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (f?l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?l/

Noun

ful m (collective, singulative fula, paucal fuliet)

1. broad bean, broad beans

See also

• fa?ola

Middle English

Adverb

ful

1. very; much; to a great extent
   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41

     And I seide, "Ser, in his tyme maister Ioon Wiclef was holden of ful many men the grettis clerk that thei knewen lyuynge vpon erthe. And therwith he was named, as I gesse worthili, a passing reuli man and an innocent in al his lyuynge. […]

     And I said, "Sir, in his time master John Wycliffe was held by very many men the greatest clerk that they knew living upon earth. And with this he was named, as I believe worthily, an excellent ruly and innocent man in all his living. […]

2. full
   • ca. 1384, John Wycliffe, Wycliffe Bible (translation from the Vulgate), Genesis 25:8

     and failynge he was deed in a good elde, and of greet age, and ful of dayes, and he was gaderyd to his puple.

     and failing he was dead in a good old [age], and of great age, and full of days, and he was gathered to his people.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *f?laz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f???/
• Homophone: fugl
• Rhymes: -???

Adjective

ful (masculine and feminine ful, neuter fult, definite singular and plural fule, comparative fulere, indefinite superlative fulest, definite superlative fuleste)

1. clever, sly

References

• “ful” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ful” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *f?laz.

Adjective

ful (masculine and feminine ful, neuter fult, definite singular and plural fule, comparative fulare, indefinite superlative fulast, definite superlative fulaste)

1. clever, sly

References

• “ful” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *fullaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Adjective

ful

1. Alternative form of full

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *f?laz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fu?l/

Adjective

f?l

1. foul (dirty, stinking, vile, corrupt)

Declension

Derived terms

• f?lnes

Descendants

• Middle English: foul
  • English: foul
  • Scots: foul

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *full

Adjective

ful

1. full

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: fol

• West Frisian: fol

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Verb

·ful

1. third-person singular present subjunctive prototonic of fo·loing

Mutation

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós.

Adjective

ful

1. full

Declension

Related terms

• fullian

Descendants

• Low German: vull

Plautdietsch

Adjective

ful

1. foul, rotten, putrid
2. lazy, shiftless, indolent, slothful

Polish

Etymology

From English full.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Noun

ful m inan

1. (poker) full house

Declension

Romanian

Etymology

From English full.

Noun

ful n (plural fuluri)

1. (poker) full house

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fúll, from Proto-Germanic *f?laz. Compare English foul, Dutch vuil, German faul.

Pronunciation

• (Sweden) IPA^(key): /f??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Adjective

ful

1. ugly; of displeasing appearance

   Det var den fulaste unge jag någonsin sett.

   That's the ugliest kid I've ever seen.

2. dirty, bad; something contradictory to norms and rules

   Larsson gjorde en riktigt ful tackling.

   Larsson pulled off a really dirty tackle.

3. prefix indicating a state of low or poor quality: an ironic opposite of fin, "fine, elegant."
   • 2000, Mikael Niemi, Populärmusik från Vittula p. 35; English translation by Laurie Thompson: Popular Music from Vittula (2003), p. 36.

     Hukande tassade han fram till predikstolen, en skygg liten gosse med fulsnaggat hår.

     Shoulders hunched, he tip-toed toward the pulpit, a bashful little boy with an awful haircut.

Declension

Related terms

• asful
• fulöl
• fulsnygg
• skitful

Anagrams

• Ulf, ulf

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English fool.

Noun

ful

1. fool

Volapük

Noun

ful (nominative plural fuls)

1. fullness

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: fo?ol, IPA^(key): /f?l/, [f??]
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English full, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”).

Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Norwegian and Swedish full (the latter three via Old Norse). Proto-Indo-European cognates include English plenty (via Latin, compare pl?nus), Welsh llawn, Russian ??????? (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian ??? (por), Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a). See also fele.

Adjective

full (comparative fuller, superlative fullest)

1. Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.

2. Complete; with nothing omitted.

3. Total, entire.

4. (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

5. (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.

6. (of physical features) Plump, round.

7. Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

8. Having depth and body; rich.

   a full singing voice

9. (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies

     Reading maketh a full man.

10. Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.

    She's full of her latest project.

    • Everyone is now full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

11. Filled with emotions.
    • 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal

      The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

12. (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.

    • Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.

13. (poker, postnominal) Said of the three cards of the same rank in a full house.

    Nines full of aces = three nines and two aces (999AA).

    I'll beat him with my kings full! = three kings and two unspecified cards of the same rank.

14. (chiefly Australia) Drunk, intoxicated.
    • 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:

      Mr. Coniff: That is the only evidence you gave of his being intoxicated, that his hat was on the side? […] Mr. Coniff: That is the only indication you gave the committee when you were asked if the judge was full, that his hat was on the side of his head; is that right?

Synonyms

• (containing the maximum possible amount): 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
• (complete): complete, thorough
• (total): entire, total
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed
• (of a garment): baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• (containing the maximum possible amount): empty
• (complete): incomplete
• (total): partial
• (satisfied, in relation to eating): empty, hungry, starving
• (of a garment): close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ???? (ful)

Translations

• Sundanese: wareg

Adverb

full (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Fully; quite; very; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Prospero:

     I have done nothing but in care of thee,

     Of thee, my dear one, thee, my daughter, who

     Art ignorant of what thou art; naught knowing

     Of whence I am, nor that I am more better

     Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell,

     And thy no greater father.

   • […] full in the centre of the sacred wood

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene I, verse 112

     You know full well what makes me look so pale.

   • 1880, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Blake, lines 9-12

     This cupboard […] / this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

   • 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, IX

     It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels, […]

   • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, […].

Derived terms

• full-grown
• full well

Etymology 2

From Middle English fulle, fylle, fille, from Old English fyllu, fyllo (“fullness, fill, plenty”), from Proto-Germanic *full??, *fuln? (“fullness, filling, overflow”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?no-, *plno- (“full”), from *pelh?-, *pleh?- (“to fill; full”). Cognate with German Fülle (“fullness, fill”), Icelandic fylli (“fulness, fill”). More at fill.

Noun

full (plural fulls)

1. Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.
   • Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.

   I was fed to the full.

   • 1911, Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine:

     […] he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.
2. (of the moon) The phase of the moon when its entire face is illuminated, full moon.
   • a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322

     It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]

   • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (editor), Works, Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, 1808 page 219,

     This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

3. (freestyle skiing) An aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist.

Derived terms

(freestyle skiing):

Translations

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.
   • 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):

     The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

   • 1905, Annie Fellows Johnston, The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation, ch. 4:

     "By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls, keep thy tryst!"

   • 1918, Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Story Of Waitstill Baxter, ch. 29:

     "The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

From Middle English fullen, fulwen, from Old English fullian, fulwian (“to baptise”), from Proto-Germanic *fullaw?h?n? (“to fully consecrate”), from *fulla- (“full-”) + *w?h?n? (“to hallow, consecrate, make holy”). Compare Old English fulluht, fulwiht (“baptism”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. (transitive) To baptise.

Derived terms

• fulling

Translations

Etymology 4

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French fuller, fouler (“to tread, to stamp, to full”), from Medieval Latin fullare, from Latin fullo (“a fuller”).

Verb

full (third-person singular simple present fulls, present participle fulling, simple past and past participle fulled)

1. To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Synonyms

• to walk, waulk

Derived terms

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin folium (“leaf”). Compare French feuille, Spanish hoja, Italian foglio, Italian foglia (the latter from Latin folia, plural of folium). Doublet of the borrowing foli.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

1. sheet of paper

Related terms

• fulla

Further reading

• “full” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ful/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English full.

Adjective

full (plural fulls)

1. (Quebec) full
2. (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded

Adverb

full

1. (Quebec) very, really

Etymology 2

From English full house.

Noun

full m (plural fulls)

1. (poker) full house

Further reading

• “full” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From English full house.

Noun

full m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) full house, boat

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullere, indefinite superlative fullest, definite superlative fulleste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk

Derived terms

Related terms

• fylle

See also

• -full (Bokmål)

References

• “full” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós. Cognates include Danish fuld, Swedish full, Icelandic fullur, German voll, Dutch vol, English full, Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls), Lithuanian pilnas, Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l?/

Adjective

full (neuter singular fullt, definite singular and plural fulle, comparative fullare, indefinite superlative fullast, definite superlative fullaste)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)

2. drunk

3. complete, total

Derived terms

Related terms

• fylle

See also

• -full (Nynorsk)

References

• “full” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /full/, [fu?]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós (“full”), from *pleh?- (“to fill”).

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian ful, Old Saxon ful, full, Old High German foll, Old Norse fullr, and Gothic ???????????????????? (fulls).

Indo-European cognates include Old Church Slavonic ????? (pl?n?), Latin pl?nus, Ancient Greek ?????? (pl?r?s) and ????? (plé?s), Old Irish lán, and Sanskrit ????? (p?r?a).

Alternative forms

• ful

Adjective

full

1. full, filled, complete, entire

Declension

Derived terms

• full??e

Related terms

• fyllan

Descendants

• Middle English: full
  • English: full
  • Scots: fou

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *full? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *p?l(w)- (“a kind of vessel”). Akin to Old Saxon full (“beaker”), Old Norse full (“beaker”).

Alternative forms

• ful

Noun

full n

1. a beaker
2. a cup, especially one with liquor in it

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse fullr, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pl?h?nós

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?l/

Adjective

full

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount)
2. drunk, intoxicated

   Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna

Declension

Derived terms

• handfull

Related terms

• fylla