Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Full to overflowing.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full to the brim or top; completely full: rarely used attributively: as, a glass brimful of wine; “brimful of sorrow,”
  • “her brimful eyes,”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Filled to maximum capacity

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective filled to capacity

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From brim + -ful

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word brimful.

Examples

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.