full-throated

Adjective

full-throated (comparative more full-throated, superlative most full-throated)

1. (also, figuratively) Using all the power of one's voice; communicated loudly or vociferously.
   • [T]hou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, / In some melodious plot / Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, / Singest of summer in full-throated ease.1819, John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 1, page...
   • The laughter was not quite so full-throated as before. Such excessive cleverness was a little Satanic.1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VII, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 189
2. (figuratively) Showing strong feelings.
   • [Andy] Warhol's portraits of Jackie [Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis] could not be more full-throated in their sorrow because they are so obviously felt, a silent agony.2002 February 9, Jonathan Jones, “Twenty Jackies, Andy Warhol (1964)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2015
   • Governor [Nikki] Hayley's full-throated insistence that the [Confederate] flag be removed—she called it a "deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past"—played an instrumental role in building consensus in the state's Republican Party.2015 October 6, “More Than a Flag”, in The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, Mass.: Trustees of the Harvard Crimson, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2017

   Synonyms:

   emphatic, forceful, vehement

3. (dated, euphemistic) Of a woman: having ample breasts.
   • There she sits, at the very opposite corner, just as far off as accident could put her from this handsome fellow, by whose side she ought, of course, to be sitting. [...] Tawny-haired, amber-eyed, full-throated, skin as white as a blanched almond.1859 January–December, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], chapter III, in The Professor at the Breakfast-Table; […], Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1860, →OCLC, page 67
   • And this was Miggles! this bright-eyed, full-throated young woman, whose wet gown of coarse blue stuff could not hide the beauty of the feminine curves to which it clung; [...]1869, Bret Harte, “[Sketches.] Miggles.”, in The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches (The Riverside Library), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], →OCLC, page 43

   Synonyms:

   buxom, curvaceous, bathykolpian, big, big-breasted, breasty, boobilicious, bosomy, busty, chesty