full-blown

Speech parts

1. full-blown - Adjective

2. full-blown - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.

Fully distended with wind, as a sail.

Alternative names

full blown

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Examples

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. Rumi

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age. John Dryden

Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own destruction but not possessing the necessary moral fiber to support a full-blown deathwish. So he manufactured ways in which other people could do it, lopping a piece at a time off himself and their family. Stephen King

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment. Here we have the first internal inconsistency of contemporary atheism: it proclaims that all religion must necessarily vanish away, and it is itself a religious phenomenon. Jacques Maritain

Sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose, Flushing his brow, and in his pained heart Made purple riot. John Keats

Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush. I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that. Sophie Kinsella

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