full-blown

full–blown

adjective

Definition of FULL-BLOWN

fully grown or developed <before he became a full-blown literary sensation, he wrote articles for little journals that paid even littler money>

Synonyms adult, full-blown, full-fledged, matured, ripe, ripened

Related Words aged, aging (or ageing), long-lived, old, older; golden, mellow

Near Antonyms blooming, blossoming, burgeoning, flourishing, flowering; undeveloped, unfinished, unfledged, unformed

Antonyms adolescent, green, immature, juvenile, unripe, unripened, young, youngish, youthful

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