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Definition of Full-blown

1. Adjective. Fully ripe; at the height of bloom. "A full-blown rose"

2. Adjective. Having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness. "A full-blown financial crisis"

Definition of Full-blown

1. Adjective. Completely developed or formed. ¹

2. Adjective. At the peak of blossom; ripe. ¹

3. Adjective. Filled with wind; puffed up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full-blown

fulhams fulicine fuliginosities fuliginosity fuliginous fuliginously fuliguline fulimart fulimarts full

full(a) full-back full-backs full-blood full-blooded full-blown (current term) full-bodied full-bore full-bosomed full-clad

full-court press full-deckism full-deckisms full-dress full-dress uniform full-face full-fashioned full-figured full-fledged

Literary usage of Full-blown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Miscellaneous Correspondence in 1820—Financial Affairs in Virginia—On the Florida Treaty and Texas—"Monroe Doctrine" full blown—Jefferson's Views of the ..."

2. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Pump Tertius goes on with the bank ; but his chief business in life is to become the father of Pump Quartus, who comes out a full-blown ..."

3. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1847)
"Within less than one year from this time, Queen Anne's death prostrated in the dust the full-blown hopes of the Jacobite party ; and, in 1714, ..."

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