full-grown
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English *fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).
Adjective
editfull-grown (not comparable)
- (of living things, especially animals) Fully developed; adult.
- Fully developed in a broader sense; complete, at one’s height.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XXXIX, page 61:
- […] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
A life that bears immortal fruit
In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
Synonyms
edit- big, developed, grown up; see also Thesaurus:full-grown