Full

Part of speech: adjective

Pronunciation: /fʊl/

Definitions

1. Complete with nothing missing or lacking; containing as much or as many as possible
2. Entirely occupying a space to its limits or maxing out in quantity
3. Containing every part necessary without omission ; holding as much as can be contained or supported

Etymology: The word "full" has ancient roots: it traces back to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "full," and its cognates run through nearly every Germanic language, from Dutch "vol" and German "voll" to Swedish "full." Its Old English form, "full," gave English one of its most basic adjectives, and the same root produced the noun "fill" (Old English "fyllu," meaning "fullness") and the verb "fill." The word has also shed some surprising senses. In Scots, the form "fou" became a separate English doublet meaning "drunk," which is the same idea of being filled to the brim, applied to a person. Old English also had "fullian," meaning "to baptise," built from "full" and a word meaning "to make holy," so a verb about sanctifying water was once tied to the notion of fullness. Cloth-making supplies another link. The verb "full," meaning to thicken and clean woollen cloth by treading it, comes from Anglo-Norman and Old French "fouler," which descends from Medieval Latin "fullāre" and Latin "fullō," "a fuller." That word is unrelated to the adjective, so the two only look alike by coincidence.

Synonyms: filled, satiated, sated, crowded, packed

Antonyms: empty, vacant, void, depleted, hungry