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View synonyms for brimful

brimful

or brim·full

[ brim-fool ]

adjective

  1. full to the brim.


brimful

/ ˌbrɪmˈfʊl /

adjective

  1. postpositive, foll byof filled up to the brim (with)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • brimfully adverb
  • brimfulness brimfullness noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brimful1

First recorded in 1520–30; brim 1 + -ful
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Example Sentences

LeBron’s championship chases are brimful of the most pivotal buckets in NBA postseason history, and not just his own.

He is small, alert, brimful of jokes and of years; seventy they say, but he neither looks it nor acts it.

She looked all about; the whole face of nature looked back, brimful of meaning, finger on lip, leaking its glad secret.

The characters are all brimful of wholesome human interest with Brenda as a paramount attraction.

In a Court like that of Whitehall, brimful of wit and malice, such a man was treated as a clown.

So saying, he filled him a brimful cup, which the coutelier drank off, and retired to do his patron's commission.

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