full

A1 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /fʊl/ UK /fʊl/ See IPA manual

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Sounds like fool /ʊ/ vs /uː/

Freq #517

Meanings

1

adj
Holding as much as possible; with no space left.

The glass was full of water.
2

adj
Complete; including everything.

Please write your full name and address.
3

adj
Having eaten enough food.

No more cake for me, thanks, I'm full.
4

adj
Having the usual or expected amount.

The shop gives you full measure for your money.

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Synonyms

1 adj · holding as much as... brimfuljam-packedpacked

2 adj · complete; including... total

3 adj · having eaten enough food. replete

4 adj · having the usual or... good

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close-fittingempty hungry incomplete partial small starving tighttight-fitting

Word family

Forms fulledfullerfullestfullingfulls

Derived forms bankfullbowl-fullbung-fullchoke-fullchuck-fullcram-fulldouble-fullfouthfull-backfull-beardedfull-bloodfull-blooded

Related forms fill fulfil fulsome fulth

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full cup
a cup filled completely with liquid

Adjective + noun
full name
both the given name and family name together

Adjective + noun
full control
complete authority or power over something, with no limitations

Adjective + noun
full month
a complete month with all its days counted

Adjective + noun
full stop
the punctuation mark (.) ending a sentence; also used for emphatic finality

Adjective + noun
full-time job
employment for the standard number of working hours per week

Adjective + noun

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Etymology

From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“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 plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "dru…

*pleh₁- Proto-Indo-European ful Middle English full Old English *full Proto-West Germanic *fullaz Proto-Germanic *pl̥h₁nós Proto-Indo-European

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# full

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A1
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /fʊl/
**IPA (UK):** /fʊl/
**Frequency rank:** 517

## Meanings
1. Holding as much as possible; with no space left.
2. Complete; including everything.
3. Having eaten enough food.
4. Having the usual or expected amount.

## Examples
- The glass was full of water.
- Please write your full name and address.
- No more cake for me, thanks, I'm full.
- The shop gives you full measure for your money.

## Synonyms
- complete
- thorough

## Antonyms
- close-fitting
- empty
- hungry
- incomplete
- partial
- small
- starving
- tight
- tight-fitting

## Derived Forms
- bankfull
- bowl-full
- bung-full
- choke-full
- chuck-full
- cram-full
- double-full
- fouth
- full-back
- full-bearded
- full-blood
- full-blooded

## Related Forms
- fill
- fulfil
- fulsome
- fulth

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *pleh₁-
- Root: ful
- Root: full
- Root: *full
- Root: *fullaz
- Root: *pl̥h₁nós

## Etymology
From Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“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 plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). For the "dru…

## AI Etymology
Full comes from Middle English ful, from Old English full (“full”), from Proto-West Germanic *full, from Proto-Germanic *fullaz (“full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“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 plēnus), Welsh llawn, Russian по́лный (pólnyj), Lithuanian pilnas, Persian پر (por), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇá). See also fele and Scots fou (whence the English doublet fou (“drunk”)). In current use, the main senses are “Holding as much as possible; with no space left” and “Complete; including everything”.

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- Describing Qualities

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