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full-grown en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈfʊlˌɡɹoʊn/ (General-American)
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Etymology

From Middle English *fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, of living things, qualifier:especially animals) Fully developed; adult.
  2. (not-comparable) Fully developed in a broader sense; complete, at one’s height.
    • Near-synonyms: full-fledged, full-blown, full-bore, full-on
    • […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given ⁠A life that bears immortal fruit ⁠In such great offices as suit The full-grown energies of heaven. 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXIX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 61:

Antonyms

juvenile · ungrown · immature

Deriveds

full-grownness

Hypernyms

adultlike

Hyponyms

grownish

Synonyms

grown up · grownup · grown up · big · adult · developed · grownup · developed · full-on · full-blown · grown-ass · mature · full-bore · big · grown-up · full-grown · full-fledged · grown · grown-ass

Translations (9)

gl callado (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · sa प्रौढ (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · grc ἁδρός (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · mi kātua (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · la mātūrus (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · la grandis (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · sa वृद्ध (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · grc τέλειος (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal) · bg напълно развит (having reached an adult stage - referring to an animal)