DictionaryRoot: full
Old English

full

containing all that can be received

1 / 1
A basket filled to its rim with apples.
adjective / adverb / noun

full

FULL/fʊl/

Filled to the whole amount available or needed.

Etymology

Old English full already described something containing all it could receive. The modern sense keeps that concrete idea of capacity completely taken up.

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