In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.
He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
Used as an intensifier for a quantity.
it was fully four hours before we arrived home.
Exactly, equally.
It is fully as shocking as it is meant to be. You step into a pitch black chamber, treading on what feels like a perilous cattle grid, which seems to trigger the crackling circle of white light that starts into life above you.
From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe (“fully”), equivalent to full + -ly. Compare German völlig (“fully”), Swedish fullt (“fully”).
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