• IPA: /ˈfʊli/

From Middle English fully, fulliche, volliche, from Old English fullīċe, equivalent to full + -ly.

fully

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

   Synonyms: sufficiently, perfectly, completely, entirely

   He is fully capable of meeting his responsibilities.

   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 19, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 7:

     The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.

2. Used as an intensifier for a quantity.

   it was fully four hours before we arrived home.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “In Obama’s Second Term, Familiar Challenges”, in The New York Times‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20230202160153/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/us/politics/in-president-obamas-second-term-familiar-challenges.html]}, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-02-02:

     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. (Followed by as) Exactly, equally.
   • 2018 December 9, Laura Cumming, “Haroon Mirza: reality is somehow what we expect it to be – review”, in The Observer‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20230705204845/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/09/haroon-mirza-reality-is-somehow-what-we-expect-it-to-be-review-ikon]}, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-07-05:

     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. (rare) So as to be full (not hungry); to satiation.

   to eat fully

5. (colloquial) Used as a general intensifier; actually, really, literally.

   I fully woke up at like 12 p.m. yesterday.

   • 2015 March 22, Michael Schulman, “Lena Dunham and the ’Man Who Drew Eloise’”, in The New York Times‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20221226025809/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/style/lena-dunham-and-the-man-who-drew-eloise.html]}, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2022-12-26:

     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.

• French: entièrement, complètement
• Italian: pienamente
• Portuguese: completamente
• Russian: по́лностью
• Spanish: completamente

• French: entièrement, complètement
• German: völlig
• Italian: completamente, appieno, ampiamente
• Portuguese: completamente
• Russian: по́лностью
• Spanish: completamente, a fondo

A reference to the phrase "the prisoner was fully committed for trial".

fully (fullies, present participle fullying; simple past and past participle fullied)

1. (slang, obsolete, transitive) To commit or send someone to trial.

   That would have stirred them up a bit — Charles Pearce in court! Instead of which he was John Ward, and if he was fullied he'd probably get seven years at the most five, perhaps — and then he could be ill and be released on ticket.