Fully
['fʊlɪ] or ['fʊli]
Definition
(adv.) to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form); 'fully grown'; 'he didn't fully understand'; 'knew full well'; 'full-grown'; 'full-fledged'.
Typed by Lillian--From WordNet
Definition
(adv.) In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily; as, to be fully persuaded of the truth of a proposition.
Typist: Pierce
Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. Completely, entirely, abundantly, largely, full, to the full.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- While there's a handful of fire or a mouthful of bed in this present roof, you're fully welcome to your share on it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That natural selection generally act with extreme slowness I fully admit. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- How fully her mind was made up to do otherwise he did not know. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- And I fully meant it, and I fully mean it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But the government of King William was not then fully settled. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If such gradations were not all fully preserved, transitional varieties would merely appear as so many new, though closely allied species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It resulted in securing more advanced positions for all our troops where they were fully covered from the fire of the enemy. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the meanwhile let it be fully understood that I shall not neglect bringing the grindstone to bear, nor yet bringing Dusty Boffin's nose to it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All that he has of certainty will be expended when he is fully equipped. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Only those who know of the suffering endured in former times can fully appreciate the decrease in pain brought about by the proper use of narcotics. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- From heel to toe they were fully three feet long, and very flat and very broad. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving home but after being fully dressed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I fully intended to have done so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It's a sad picter, to reflect that she's no longer equal to fully understanding the honor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- This principle was the discovery of Soren Hjorth, of Copenhagen, and is fully described in his British patent, No. 806 of 1855, for An Improved Magneto-Electric Battery. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A shop fully equipped with electric machinery is the best possible kind of shop for employee as well as for the owner. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They understood each other so thoroughly by this time, that I fully expected to see them walk off together, arm in arm, to be married. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Perhaps, if you explained yourself a little more fully, I should comprehend better. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- His countenance was therefore fully displayed, and its expression was calculated to impress a degree of awe, if not of fear, upon strangers. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The man himself, for such I may call him, was fully fifteen feet in height and, on Earth, would have weighed some four hundred pounds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I read these words over and over again: I felt that an explanation belonged to them, and was unable fully to penetrate their import. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- When the nature and laws of the waves of sound became fully known a great field of inventions was opened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With some exceptions, presently to be given, I fully admit that this is the rule. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The rent of a very moderate landed estate might be fully sufficient for defraying all the other necessary expenses of government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Old Man is the only fully adult male in the little group. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr. Brooke has been fully informed of Mr. Farebrother's character and position. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I will satisfy you fully concerning my family when I return from Greece. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Typist: Stephanie