full

/ˈfu̇l/

Middle English ful, full, fol, going back to Old English full, going back to Germanic *fulla- (whence also Old Frisian ful, fol "full," Old Saxon full, Middle Dutch vol, Old High German fol, Old Icelandic fullr, Gothic fulls), going back to Indo-European *pl̥hnó-, verbal adjective from the base *pleh- "become full," whence also Old Irish lán "full," Welsh llawn (with length secondary if the proposed law shortening pretonic vowels in Celtic is valid), Latin plēnus (with -ē- from -plēre "to fill"), Old Church Slavic plĭnŭ, Russian pólnyj, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian pȕn, Lithuanian pìlnas, Sanskrit pūrṇáḥ, Avestan pərəna-; *pleh- appears with varying ablaut and suffixation in Latin plēre "to fill" (from *plēi̯e-), verbal adjective plētus, Greek pímplēmi "(I) fill," plêto "(it) has become full," Armenian lnowm "(I) fill," Sanskrit pr̥ṇā́ti "(s/he) fills"

adjective

  1. containing as much or as many as is possible or normal —often used with of

  2. complete especially in detail, number, or duration

  3. lacking restraint, check, or qualification

a full hamper

full complete plenary replete mean containing all that is wanted or needed or possible. full implies the presence or inclusion of everything that is wanted or required by something or that can be held, contained, or attained by it. complete applies when all that is needed is present.

adverb

  1. very, extremely

  2. entirely

  3. straight, squarely

knew full well they had lied to me

swung full around

noun

  1. the highest or fullest state or degree

  2. the utmost extent

the full of the moon