Fully

/ˈfʊli/ · adverb

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
2. Used as an intensifier for a quantity.
3. (Followed by as) Exactly, equally.
4. (rare) So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.
5. (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.
6. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To commit or send someone to trial.

Example Sentences

He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.

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.

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.

it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

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.

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.

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Word Forms

• more fully
• most fully
• fullies
• fullying
• fullied

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