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full
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)
- Containing the maximum possible amount that can fit in the space available.
- Complete; with nothing omitted.
- Total, entire.
- (informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.
- (informal, with of) Replete, abounding with.
- (of physical features) Plump, round.
- Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.
- Having depth and body; rich.
- a full singing voice
- (obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- Reading maketh a full man.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Studies
- 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.
- Filled with emotions.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
- The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.
- 1848, James Russell Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal
- (obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.
- Ilia, the fair, […] full of Mars.
- (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.
- (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?
- 1925, United States House Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee No. 1, Charges Against William E. Baker, U.S. District Judge:
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)
- (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, […].
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii[1]:
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)
- 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.
- (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.
- a. 1622, Francis Bacon, Natural History, in The works of Francis Bacon, 1765, page 322
- (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)
- (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?"
- 1888 September 20, "The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):
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)
- (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)
- 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)
- 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)
- (Quebec) full
- (Quebec) overflowing, packed, crowded
Adverb
full
- (Quebec) very, really
Etymology 2
From English full house.
Noun
full m (plural fulls)
- (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)
- (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)
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- 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)
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- drunk
- 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
- 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
- a beaker
- 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
- full (containing the maximum possible amount)
- drunk, intoxicated
- Synonyms: berusad, dragen, drucken, packad, plakat, påverkad, rund under fötterna
Declension
Derived terms
- handfull
Related terms
- fylla
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pregnant
English
Alternative forms
- prægnant (obsolete)
- pregnaunt (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p???n?nt/
Etymology 1
From Middle English preignant, from Old French preignant, pregnant, also prenant (compare archaic Modern French prégnant), and their source, Latin praegn?ns (“pregnant”), probably from prae- (“pre-”) + gnasc? (“to be born”). Displaced Old English bearn?acen (literally "child-increased").
Adjective
pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)
- (chiefly not comparable) Carrying developing offspring within the body.
- Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- Of a couple: expecting a baby together.
- (comparable) Having numerous possibilities or implications; full of promise; abounding in ability, resources, etc.
- (poetic) Fertile, prolific (usually of soil, ground, etc.).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- The sunne-beames bright vpon her body playd, / Being through former bathing mollifide, / And pierst into her wombe, where they embayd / With so sweet sence and secret power vnspide, / That in her pregnant flesh they shortly fructifide.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.vi:
- (obsolete) Affording entrance; receptive; yielding; willing; open; prompt.
- (obsolete) Ready-witted; clever; ingenious.
Synonyms
- (carrying offspring (standard)): expecting, expecting a baby, expectant, gravid (of animals only), with child, fertilized
- (carrying offspring (colloquial/slang)): eating for two, having a bun in the oven, in a family way, knocked up, preggers, up the duff, up the spout
- (carrying offspring (euphemistic)): in an interesting condition, in a family way
- (having many possibilities or implications): meaningful, significant
- See also Thesaurus:pregnant
Hyponyms
- (carrying developing offspring): in trouble
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
pregnant (plural pregnants)
- A pregnant person.
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Etymology 2
Apparently from Middle French pregnant, preignant (“pressing, compelling”), present participle of prembre (“to press”), from Latin premere (“to press”).
Adjective
pregnant (comparative more pregnant, superlative most pregnant)
- (now rare) Compelling; clear, evident. [from 14th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:
- Peregrine was in a little time a distinguished character, not only for his acuteness of apprehension, but also for that mischievous fertility of fancy, of which we have already given such pregnant examples.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.18:
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French pregnant, from Old French pregnant, from Latin praegn?ns.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr?x?n?nt/
- Hyphenation: preg?nant
- Rhymes: -?nt
Adjective
pregnant (comparative pregnanter, superlative pregnantst)
- poignant, incisive
- meaningful, polysemic
- (obsolete) important
Inflection
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from German prägnant and French prégnant.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pre??nant/
Adjective
pregnant m or n (feminine singular pregnant?, masculine plural pregnan?i, feminine and neuter plural pregnante)
- pregnant (having many possibilities or implications)
Declension
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