Entry Word: fully

Function: adverb

Meaning: 1 to a full extent or degree <only with daybreak did we fully realize the extent of the damage from the storm>

Synonyms all, altogether, clean, completely, dead, entirely, fast, flat, full, perfectly, plumb [chiefly dialect], quite, thoroughly, totally, utterly, well, wholly

Related Words absolutely, categorically, unqualifiedly; by and large, chiefly, generally, largely, mainly, more or less, mostly, predominately, primarily, principally

Phrases at length, to pieces, to the hilt

Near Antonyms barely, hardly, just, scarcely

Antonyms partially, partly

2 with attention to all aspects or details <wanted to be fully involved in the project> — see thoroughly 1