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well-filled

well-filled adjective: sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.

Adjective

well-filled (comparative more well-filled, superlative most well-filled)

  1. Sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.
    • Speaking of locomotive surefootedness, I was immensely impressed, on a recent journey with the down "Ulsterman" from Euston, when "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46168, The Girl Guide, cleanly lifted a well-filled 15-coach train of 471 tons tare and 500 tons gross out of the terminus without the service of...1953 November, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 760
    • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future.1959 June, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408

Forms of well-filled

comparativemore well-filled
superlativemost well-filled

Questions about well-filled

What does well-filled mean?
Well-filled means sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.
What part of speech is well-filled?
Well-filled is an adjective.

Words near well-filled in the dictionary

  1. well-established
  2. well-favored
  3. well-favoured
  4. well-favouredly
  5. well-fed
  6. well-filled
  7. well-fitted
  8. well-fixed
  9. well-formed
  10. well-formed formula
  11. well-formed formulae

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