fullyadverb
uk/ˈfʊl.i/us/ˈfʊl.i/fully adverb (COMPLETELY)
B1 completely:
Have you fully recovered from your illness?
I fully intended to call you last night.
I'm sorry, the restaurant is fully booked.
I fully understand the problem.
a fully qualified teacher
More examples
- Bathers must be fully clothed before entering the restaurant.
- He has written a fully comprehensive guide to Rome.
- We had to stay in the sleaziest hotel in town as everywhere else was fully booked.
- The extent of the flooding can only be fully appreciated when viewed from the air.
- The death of his son was an experience from which he never fully recovered.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complete and whole
- A, a
- a/one hundred percent idiom
- absolutely
- all or nothing idiom
- all-in-one
- all-inclusive
- completely
- flat
- full-fledged
- full-length
- fully fledged
- heart and soul idiom
- hilt
- root
- totally
- unadulterated
- unconditional
- uncut
- undivided
- unequivocal
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fully adverb (GREATEST POSSIBLE)
as much as possible:
Kate has always participated fully in the life of the school.
He cooperated fully with the police.
More examples
- My job doesn't really allow me fully to deploy my skills.
- I fully endorse everything the Chairperson has said.
- We need to make sure that we exploit our resources as fully as possible.
- Let's explore this issue more fully.
- We wanted to explain the plans fully, but the chairman stopped us short, as there were other important matters to discuss.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Complete and whole
- A, a
- a/one hundred percent idiom
- absolutely
- all or nothing idiom
- all-in-one
- all-inclusive
- completely
- flat
- full-fledged
- full-length
- fully fledged
- heart and soul idiom
- hilt
- root
- totally
- unadulterated
- unconditional
- uncut
- undivided
- unequivocal
See more results »