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full-blooded

full-blooded adjective: of purebred ancestry.

Adjective

full-blooded (not comparable)

  1. Of purebred ancestry.
    • Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam...2023 May 16, Maud Newton, “Blending Native History and Myth Into Heartfelt Memoir”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Jun 2023
  2. Having a florid or ruddy complexion.
  3. Hearty or lusty.
    • And when it was quickly returned to Jarvis, with United failing to mark properly, his clean cross was met with a full-blooded header by former Colchester defender Elokobi, who had to stretch his neck back to add power.2011 February 5, Chris Whyatt, “Wolverhampton 2 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC

full-blooded meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

full-blooded in Tamil

உணர்வான, உள்ளார்ந்த, கலப்பற்ற, சுறுசுறுப்பான

full-blooded in Malayalam

all-out, out and out, uncompromising
ഊർജ്ജസ്വലവും സർവ്വാത്മനാ ആയുമുള്ള, പൂർണ്ണമനസ്സോടെയുള്ള, ആത്മാർത്ഥതയുള്ള, പൂർണ്ണമായ, സന്ധിയില്ലാത്ത, വിട്ടുവീഴ്ചയില്ലാത്ത

Synonyms of full-blooded

All synonyms of full-blooded

Forms of full-blooded

alternative formfullblooded

Words formed from full-blooded

Questions about full-blooded

What does full-blooded mean?
Full-blooded means of purebred ancestry.
What is full-blooded in Tamil?
Full-blooded in Tamil is உணர்வான, உள்ளார்ந்த, கலப்பற்ற. See Full-blooded meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is full-blooded?
Full-blooded is an adjective.

Words near full-blooded in the dictionary

  1. full-backs
  2. full-beam
  3. full-beams
  4. full-bearded
  5. full-blood
  6. full-blooded
  7. full-bloods
  8. full-blown
  9. full-bodied
  10. full-bodied money
  11. full-bodied moneys

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Adapted from Wiktionary: full-blooded (page history and authors); full-blooded (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); full-blooded (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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