fully

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

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

   He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.

2. 2
   adv

   Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

   it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

3. 3
   adv

   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 above you.

4. 4
   adv

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

   to eat fully

5. 5
   adv

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

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

6. 6
   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.

7. 7
   adv

   to the greatest degree or extent

8. 8
   adv

   sufficiently

Etymology

From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe (“fully”), equivalent to full + -ly. Compare German völlig (“fully”), Swedish fullt (“fully”).