Brimful
['brɪmfʊl]
Definition
(adj.) filled to capacity; 'a brimful cup'; 'I am brimful of chowder'; 'a child brimming over with curiosity'; 'eyes brimming with tears' .
Typist: Toni--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
Editor: Olivia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Quite full, full to the brim, choke full.
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Examples
- I am brimful of downright questions; and I expect you to be brimful of downright answers. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- And I was that nearest person--brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Man's nature, brimful of passions and affections, would have had an home in that little heart, whose swift pulsations hurried towards their close. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When a man gets a good berth, mother, half the deserving must come after, said the son, brimful of pleasure, and not trying to conceal it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Vase am I, she thought, vase brimful of despair's direst essence. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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