to the full

prepositional phrase

Fully; completely.

“Now that I'm retired, I feel I can live life to the full.”

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Meanings

prepositional phrase

alternative to the fullest

  1. Fully; completely.

    'Brrrrr,' said Lieutenant Dubosc, realizing to the full how cold he was.

    1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 7

    Synonyms: all the way, from soup to nuts, in excelsis, to the backbone, to the bone, to the brim, to the core, to the fullest

  2. Without any reservation; taking the greatest advantage of the situation.

    Now that I'm retired, I feel I can live life to the full.

Synonyms & antonyms

prepositional phraseFully; completely.

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More synonyms by meaning

adverbto the greatest degree or extent; completely or entirely; (‘full’ in this sense is used as a combining form)

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completelyfullfullyto the backboneto the boneto the brimto the coreto the gillsto the gunnelsto the hiltto the maxto the ninesto the nth degreeto the tonsilsto the top of one's bentup to eleven

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Bulgarian докрай
  • докрай (dokraj)fully, completely
Finnish täysin, täysillä
  • täysinfully, completely
  • täysilläfully, completely
  • täyttäfully, completely
Polish na całego, na całość
  • na całegofully, completely
  • na całośćfully, completely
  • na maksafully, completely
Spanish hasta las trancas
  • hasta las trancasfully, completely
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APA

to the full. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20full

MLA

“to the full.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20full. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “to the full,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/to%20the%20full.

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