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full-faced

[ fool-feyst ]

adjective

  1. having a plump or round face.
  2. facing squarely toward the spectator or in a given direction.


full-faced

adjective

  1. having a round full face
  2. Alsofull face facing towards the viewer, with the entire face visible
  3. another name for bold face
“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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Derived Forms

  • ˈfullˈface, nounadverb
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Other Words From

  • fullface noun adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of full-faced1

First recorded in 1600–10
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Example Sentences

He gives me one of those full-faced smiles that travel straight to my lizard brain.

He wrote with great power, and on the original parchment, no signature is so bold and full-faced as his.

His full-faced figure, foreshortened upon the wall, stood out from the white background with an astonishing vitality.

Mine host, old Gaffer Moon, smiles down upon the ashes of my camp fire, full-faced and silver.

She opened it under his orders, and saw a full-faced girl of a common type, with frowsy hair and a showily-made dress.

But he remembered a full-faced, smiling man somewhat taller than himself, somewhat broader across the shoulders.

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