full-blown
full-blown adjective: completely developed or formed.
Adjective (1)
full-blown (comparative more full-blown, superlative most full-blown)
- Completely developed or formed.
- We are in the midst of a full-blown crisis.
- Solicitor—for just before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor!1897, Bram Stoker, chapter II, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter II, pages 16–17
- Synonyms:
- full-fledged, full-bore, full-on
- At the peak of blossom; ripe.
- The trees in the garden were resplendent with full-blown white gardenias.
- There might ye ſee the pioney ſpread vvide, / The full-blovvn roſe, the ſhepherd and his laſs, / Lap-dog and lambkin vvith black ſtaring eyes, / And parrots vvith tvvin cherries in their beak.1785, William Cowper, “Book I. The Sofa.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 3
Adjective (2)
full-blown (comparative more full-blown, superlative most full-blown)
full-blown meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Sanskrit
full-blown in Bengali
- full-blown
- প্রস্ফুটিত prośphuṭito
full-blown in Malayalam
- full-scale, fully developed, full-blooded
- മുഴുവനും വടർന്ന, വികസിതമായ, ഉത്ഫുല്ല, വിരിഞ്ഞ, പ്രഫുല്ലമായ, കുട്മള
full-blown in Kannada
- ಸಲೆ ಅರಳಿದ, ತವೆ ಬೆಳೆದ
full-blown in Sanskrit
- full-blown
- उज्ज्वल ujjvala
Examples of full-blown in a sentence
- The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe[…]should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
- Speaking in full-blown Scientologese, he [Mark Rathbun] wrote, “The end result is unmocked org form, overworked and enturbulated executives and staff.”2013, Lawrence Wright, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, in Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A....
- She found it hot enough; but they were so full-blown that one could not wait.”1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for...
- Above, Jupiter hung like a full-blown jonquil, so bright as almost to throw a shade.1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter L, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to...
Synonyms of full-blown
Antonyms
Forms of full-blown
| comparative | more full-blown |
|---|---|
| superlative | most full-blown |
Origin of full-blown
From full + blown, past participle of blow (“to blossom”).
From full + blown, past participle of blow (“to produce an air current”).
Questions about full-blown
- What does full-blown mean?
- Full-blown means completely developed or formed.
- What is full-blown in Bengali?
- Full-blown in Bengali is প্রস্ফুটিত (prośphuṭito). See Full-blown meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use full-blown in a sentence?
- The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe[…]should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.
- What part of speech is full-blown?
- Full-blown is an adjective.
Words near full-blown in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: full-blown (page history and authors); প্রস্ফুটিত (Bengali) (page history and authors); full-blown (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); full-blown (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); उज्ज्वल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). 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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