full
adjective (LARGE) /fʊl/Definition
› (of clothing) loose or containing a lot of material, or (of parts of the body) quite large and rounded: a full skirt Women often have full faces/become full in the face when they're pregnant. She has wonderful full lips.Big and quite bigEnormousFlexible, loose and yielding › used to avoid saying 'fat': They advertise clothes 'for the fuller figure'.Big and quite bigEnormous
(Definition of full adjective (LARGE) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- adrift adjective
- bendable adjective
- bendy adjective
- ductile adjective
- elastic adjective
- floppy adjective
- jointed adjective (BODY)
- loose-fitting adjective
- loosely adverb (NOT FIXED)
- loosely adverb (NOT TIGHT)
- looseness noun (NOT FIXED)
- slack noun (NOT TIGHT)
- slacken verb (LESS TIGHT)
- slackness noun (NOT TIGHT)
- sloppy adjective (LACKING CARE)
- springy adjective
- sprung adjective
- stretch noun (MAKE LONGER)
- stretchy adjective
- yield verb (BEND/BREAK)
Topic:
Flexible, loose and yielding
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