Ful

[ fool ]

/ fʊl /

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noun, plural Fuls, (especially collectively) Ful.

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Words nearby Ful

Fukienese, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Fukuyama, Ful, Fula, Fulah, Fulani, Fulani Empire, Fulbright

Other definitions for Ful (2 of 2)

-ful

a suffix meaning “full of,” “characterized by” (shameful; beautiful; careful; thoughtful); “tending to,” “able to” (wakeful; harmful); “as much as will fill” (spoonful).

Origin of -ful

Middle English, Old English -full, -ful, representing full, fulfull¹

usage note for -ful

The plurals of nouns ending in -ful are usually formed by adding -s to the suffix: two cupfuls; two scant teaspoonfuls. Perhaps influenced by the phrase in which a noun is followed by the adjective full ( both arms full of packages ), some speakers and writers pluralize such nouns by adding -s before the suffix: two cupsful.

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How to use Ful in a sentence

American Apparel Introduces Size XL, Holds Search For ‘Booty-Ful’ Models.
My Big, Fat Photo Spoof|Nancy Upton|September 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
She's done got a pow'ful quick tempah, my Miss Betty has, same's all my Somerset family had, bein' fust quality folks lak dey was.
Dorothy at Skyrie|Evelyn Raymond
This line is too long; I omit ful wel devysed, which is not in the original.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
He was a skittish horse, gentle, as Andy explained, but "pow'ful nervous—had to be sort o' coaxed along."
The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle|Laura Lee Hope

The Ellern is a tree with long bowes, ful sounde and sad wythout, and ful holowe within, and ful of certayne nesshe pyth.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare|Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
And certainly a fine Medlar tree "ful of blossomes" is a handsome ornament on any lawn.
The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare|Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

British Dictionary definitions for Ful

-ful

suffix

(forming adjectives) full of or characterized bypainful; spiteful; restful

(forming adjectives) able or tending tohelpful; useful

(forming nouns) indicating as much as will fill the thing specifiedmouthful; spoonful

Word Origin for -ful

Old English -ful, -full, from full 1

usage for -ful

Where the amount held by a spoon, etc, is used as a rough unit of measurement, the correct form is spoonful, etc: take a spoonful of this medicine every day . Spoon full is used in a sentence such as he held out a spoon full of dark liquid, where full of describes the spoon. A plural form such as spoonfuls is preferred by many speakers and writers to spoonsful

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