unfully

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ʌnˈfʊli/ UK /ʌnˈfʊli/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adv
not fully; incompletely

The plan was unfully developed when they presented it.

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Synonyms

1 adv · not fully; incompletely incompletely partially partly imperfectly

Opposites

fully completely wholly entirely

Word family

Related forms full fullyunfull

Etymology

From un- ('not') + fully, the adverb of full, from Old English full ('full, complete') + the adverbial suffix -ly (from -līce).

un- Old English full Old English *fullaz Proto-Germanic *pelh₁- Proto-Indo-European

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# unfully

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adv
**IPA (US):** /ʌnˈfʊli/
**IPA (UK):** /ʌnˈfʊli/

## Meanings
1. not fully; incompletely

## Examples
- The plan was unfully developed when they presented it.

## Synonyms
- incompletely
- partially
- partly
- imperfectly

## Antonyms
- fully
- completely
- wholly
- entirely

## Related Forms
- full
- fully
- unfull

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: un-
- Root: full
- Root: *fullaz
- Root: *pelh₁-

## Etymology
From un- ('not') + fully, the adverb of full, from Old English full ('full, complete') + the adverbial suffix -ly (from -līce).

## AI Etymology
Unfully comes from un- ('not') + fully, the adverb of full, from Old English full ('full, complete') + the adverbial suffix -ly (from -līce). The historical chain includes Old English un-, Old English full, Proto-Germanic *fullaz, and Proto-Indo-European *pelh₁-. The quoted older senses, "not" and "full, complete", supply the semantic anchors for unfully. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, and borrowed: the word unfully carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adv, "not fully; incompletely". Related English forms include full, fully, and unfull. The result is a adv whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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