fullyadv詞源 1/ˈfʊli/

• 1

  In a full manner; without lack or defect; completely, entirely.

  • He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.
  • As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
• 2

  Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

  • it was fully four hours before we arrived home.
  • At this time in 2008, even as the global economy veered toward collapse, optimism about Washington ran surprisingly high. In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
• 3

  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.
• 4

  rareSo as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.

  • to eat fully
• 5

  Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.

  • I fully woke up at like 12 p.m. yesterday.
  • When Ms. Dunham was given a diagnosis of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a therapist asked her to picture a soothing location. "I fully just imagined Eloise's home at the Plaza," she said.

fullyverb詞源 2/ˈfʊli/

• 1

  obsoleteslangTo commit or send someone to trial.

  • 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.
  • He made the same reply when he was asked if he had anything to say before being committed; and straightway was "fullied." He lurched serenely out of the dock, waving his cap […]