Full vs Outright - What's the difference?

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Full is a related term of outright.

As adjectives the difference between full and outright

is that full is foul, rotten while outright is unqualified and unreserved.

As an adverb outright is

wholly, completely and entirely.

As a verb outright is

(sports) to release a player , without conditions.

full

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) full, from (etyl) . Germanic cognates include West Frisian fol, Low German vull, Dutch vol, German voll, Danish fuld, and Swedish and Norwegian .

Adjective

(er)

Containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available.

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Complete; with nothing omitted.

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Total, entire.

(informal) Having eaten to satisfaction, having a "full" stomach; replete.

Of a garment, of a size that is ample, wide, or having ample folds or pleats to be comfortable.

Having depth and body; rich.

a full singing voice

(obsolete) Having the mind filled with ideas; stocked with knowledge; stored with information.

* Francis Bacon

Reading maketh a full man.

Having the attention, thoughts, etc., absorbed in any matter, and the feelings more or less excited by it.

She's full of her latest project.

* John Locke

Everyone is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions.

Filled with emotions.

* Lowell

The heart is so full that a drop overfills it.

(obsolete) Impregnated; made pregnant.

* Dryden

Ilia, the fair, full of Mars.

Synonyms

* (containing the maximum possible amount) abounding, brimful, bursting, chock-a-block, chock-full, full up, full to bursting, full to overflowing, jam full, jammed, jam-packed, laden, loaded, overflowing, packed, rammed, stuffed * (complete) complete, thorough * (total) entire, total * glutted, gorged, sated, satiate, satiated, satisfied, stuffed * (of a garment) baggy, big, large, loose, outsized, oversized, voluminous

Antonyms

* (containing the maximum possible amount) empty * (complete) incomplete * (total) partial * empty, hungry, starving * (of a garment) close-fitting, small, tight, tight-fitting

Derived terms

* full as a goog * full as a tick * full beam * fullblood, full-blood, full blood * full-blown * full-bodied * full-dress * full house * fully * full marks * full moon * full name * fullness * fullscale * full stop * to the full

Adverb

(-)

(lb) Quite; thoroughly; completely; exactly; entirely.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:master of a full poor cell

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:full in the centre of the sacred wood

*1819 , (John Keats), Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 112

*:You know full well what makes me look so pale.

*(rfdate) (Dante Gabriel Rosetti), William Blake , lines 9-12

*:This cupboard/ this other one, / His true wife's charge, full oft to their abode / Yielded for daily bread the martyr's stone,

*1874 , , (The City of Dreadful Night) , IX

*:It is full strange to him who hears and feels, / When wandering there in some deserted street, / The booming and the jar of ponderous wheels,

*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes..

Derived terms

* full well

Etymology 2

From (etyl) fulle, fylle, fille, from (etyl) fyllu, . More at fill.

Noun

(en noun)

Utmost measure or extent; highest state or degree; the state, position, or moment of fullness; fill.

* Shakespeare

The swan's-down feather, / That stands upon the swell at full of tide.

* Dryden

Sicilian tortures and the brazen bull, / Are emblems, rather than express the full / Of what he feels.

I was fed to the full .

* 1911 , Berthold Auerbach, Bayard Taylor, The villa on the Rhine :

he had tasted their food, and found it so palatable that he had eaten his full before he knew it.

* 2008 , Jay Cassell, The Gigantic Book Of Hunting Stories :

Early next morning we were over at the elk carcass, and, as we expected, found that the bear had eaten his full at it during the night.

* 2010 , C. E. Morgan, All the Living: A Novel :

When he had eaten his full , they set to work again.

(of the moon) The phase of the moon when it is entire face is illuminated, full moon.

* 1765 , Francis Bacon, The works of Francis Bacon :

It is like, that the brain of man waxeth moister and fuller upon the full of the moon: [...]

* 1808 , (editor), Works , Volume VII: Practical Works, Revised edition, page 219,

This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses, while the shadow of this sinful mass hides her beauty from the world.

(label) an aerialist maneuver consisting of a backflip in conjunction and simultaneous with a complete twist

Derived terms

* at full, at the full * in full * to the full (freestyle skiing) * double full * lay-full * full-full * full-double full * double full-full * lay-full-full * full-full-full * lay-double full-full * full-double full-full

Verb

(en verb)

(of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated.

* 1888 September 20, " The Harvest Moon," New York Times (retrieved 10 April 2013):

The September moon fulls on the 20th at 24 minutes past midnight, and is called the harvest moon.

* 1905 , , The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation , ch. 4:

"By the black cave of Atropos, when the moon fulls , keep thy tryst!"

* 1918 , , The Story Of Waitstill Baxter , ch. 29:

"The moon fulls to-night, don't it?"

Etymology 3

From (etyl) fullen, fulwen, from (etyl) fullian, .

Verb

(en verb)

To baptise.

Derived terms

* fulling

Etymology 4

(etyl), from (etyl) fuller,

Verb

(en verb)

To make cloth denser and firmer by soaking, beating and pressing, to waulk, walk

Synonyms

* to walk, waulk

Derived terms

* fuller * fuller's earth

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outright

English

Adverb

(-)

Wholly, completely and entirely.

I refute those allegations outright .

Openly and without reservation.

I have just responded outright to that question.

At once.

Two people died outright and one more later.

With no outstanding conditions.

I have bought the house outright .

(informal) Blatantly; inexcusably.

That was an outright stupid thing to say.

Synonyms

* See also

Adjective

(-)

Unqualified and unreserved.

I demand an outright apology.

Total or complete.

We achieved outright domination.

Truths, half truths and outright lies.

With little effort they found dozens of outright lies.

He found a pattern of non-transparency and outright deception.

Having no outstanding conditions.

* Deutsche Bundesbank, Outright transactions

According to the general rules for Eurosystem monetary policy instruments and procedures, the outright' purchase and sale of securities on the market (' outright transactions) are among the standard open market operations used within the Eurosystem’s monetary policy framework.

I made an outright purchase of the house.

They don't seek outright independence, but rather greater autonomy.

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

(sports) To release a player , without conditions.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=August 30, author=Ben Shpigel, title=Martínez to Audition for Mets’ Brain Trust, work=New York Times citation

, passage=Sandy Alomar Jr. cleared waivers and was outrighted to Class AA Binghamton in preparation for his promotion when rosters expand Saturday. }}