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/ˈfʊli/

adverb

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01
adverb
Completely or to the greatest possible degree.
02
adverb
Extra detail
Exactly, equally.

Examples

I take it that you are fully acquainted with the facts.
Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 4

Also pronounced

/-li/
/-lɪ/

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adverb

Extra meanings

Used as an intensifier for a quantity.
In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.

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In context

To share one's passion is to live it fully.
He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

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.
1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN,...
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.
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC
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.
2011, William R. Murry, Becoming More Fully Human, →ISBN
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.
2014, Sondra Higgins Matthaei, Nancy R. Howell, Proleptic Pedagogy: Theological Education Anticipating the Future, →ISBN
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.
2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “In Obama's Second Term, Familiar Challenges”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2023

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Origin

adverb

From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe (“fully”), equivalent to full + -ly. Compare German völlig (“fully”), Swedish fullt (“fully”).

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After studying for hours, she blank— understood the entire complex theory.

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adverb

After studying for hours, she blank understood the entire complex theory.