fully — English Dictionary

Adverb

1. In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.

   Synonyms

   sufficientlyperfectlycompletelyentirely

   Examples

   He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.

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   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 he stripped off his tunic at once.

   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.

   This work therefore presents Humanism as a foundation for living in a way that is meaningful and fulfilling, and that enables us to become more fully human.

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   It is a three-fold cycle by which we are oriented to the learning process: fostering greater awareness that affords greater intentionality to participate more fully, which then fosters greater awareness, and so on in an intensifying cycle of indwelling that which we seek to know so that the union of knower and known is incarnated in and through us.

2. Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

   Examples

   it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

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   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 two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.

3. Exactly, equally.

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   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 above you.

4. So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.

   Usage

   • Rare

   Examples

   to eat fully

5. Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.

   Usage

   • Colloquial

   Examples

   I fully woke up at like 12 p.m. yesterday.

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   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.

   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.

   That is very strange—that is fully my mom.

Verb

1. To commit or send someone to trial.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Slang
   • Transitive

   Examples

   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.

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   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 […]

   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 released on ticket.

Adverb

1. to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (‘full’ in this sense is used as a combining form)

   Synonyms

   to the fullfull

   Examples

   fully grown

   he didn't fully understand

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   knew full well

   full-grown

   full-fledged

2. sufficiently; more than adequately

   Synonyms

   amply

   Examples

   the evidence amply (or fully) confirms our suspicions

   they were fully (or amply) fed

3. referring to a quantity

   Synonyms

   in full

   Examples

   the amount was paid in full