Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Totally or completely: fully grown.
- adv. At least: Fully half of the volunteers did not appear.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In a full manner; to the full; without lack or defect; completely; entirely: as, to be fully persuaded of something.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a full manner; without lack or defect.
- adv. In a full degree; to a full extent.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In a full manner or degree; completely; entirely; without lack or defect; adequately; satisfactorily.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. to the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (`full' in this sense is used as a combining form)
- adv. sufficiently; more than adequately
- adv. referring to a quantity
Examples
“_property_, at the DISCRETION of those who held _or fully represented_ the sovereign authority; -- and that _these_ rights are _fully_ delegated”
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
“If you want to claim that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine, then try to turn around and say that he could have limitations and learn yet not be wrong, then you're either playing fast and loose with the term fully or the term human.”
“Is it possible to think somewhere down the line you could use the term fully recovered?”
“What this report doesn't explain fully is that the Guelaguetza that was cancelled was the govt. sponsored one that charged people 420 pesos to get in.”
“So they swore the jail-bird, made him confess that he had served his term fully, and then told him to step down and out.”
“Shinto, does not alone constitute the State Religion: neither does the term fully describe the Shinto cult of the dead -- a cult which in Izumo retains its primitive character more than in other parts of Japan.”
“The title fully shews what Grotius gives in this book.”
The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius
“They decided to make made the MEN free in central Manchester in early 2006 - but late last year retreated on that strategy, making the title fully paid for on Monday to Wednesday and on Saturdays.”
“Apparently, the extra weeks developers now have will be used to add new gear and upgrade items, make the title fully compatible with the PSP-3000, add more hidden content, and perfect a brand new game engine that is tentatively titled "BS.”
“They argue that rational expectations is one method, certainly a ubiquitous one, based on what they call a "fully predetermined model," in which market players act as robots and markets operate as a kind of machine; another predetermined approach, they argue, is the New Keynesian school, that is the formalization into mathematical models of Keynes' "General Theory" of 1936; a third includes some of the more mechanical tendencies of the behavioral school.”
The Huffington Post: Robert Teitelman: Frydman and Goldberg's Beyond Mechanical Markets
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone has to list them.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about adverbs here.
Reesetee's list Conjunctive Adv...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2243 more...

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