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fully

FUUL-ee/ˈfʊli/

6 meanings of fully

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  1. 1
    completelyadverb
    Completely, with nothing missing or left out.

    Like filling a glass right up to the very top.

    She fully understood the rules before the game started.

    The room was fully cleaned before the guests arrived.

    UsageOften before a describing word: fully charged, fully aware.

    Similarcompletely, entirely, perfectly

    Oppositepartly, partially

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  2. 2
    at leastadverb
    Used before an amount to show it is as big as it sounds.

    Fully half of the class passed on the first try.

    The repairs cost fully twice what they had planned.

    UsagePut it right before an amount: fully half, fully two hours.

    Similareasily

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  3. 3
    casual emphasisadverbcolloquial
    Used to make a statement stronger, meaning really or truly.

    I was fully about to text you when you called!

    Look, that's fully my brother in the back of your photo!

    UsageSay it when talking with friends, not in schoolwork, where it means "completely".

    Similartotally, really, genuinely, literally

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  1. 4
    just asadverb
    Just as much, used before "as" to show that two things are equal.

    Like two stacks of blocks built to exactly the same height.

    She is fully as capable as anyone else on the team.

    The cheaper tool works fully as well as the expensive one.

    UsageUse it in fully as ... as: fully as good as before.

    Similarjust, quite

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  2. 5
    adverbrare
    So that you are full and no longer hungry after eating enough.

    Similarheartily

  3. 6
    verbobsoletetransitive
    To send someone accused of a crime to be judged in a court of law.
    So I got run in, and was tried at Marylebone and remanded for a week, and then fullied (fully committed for trial), and got this stretch and a half.
    1879, “Autobiography of a Thief in Thieves' Language”, in Macmillan's MagazineHere, fullied means sent to trial for a crime.
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Origin

From an Old English word meaning "fully," made from "full" plus "-ly."

Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 2 facts