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Definition: Full-bodied |
Full-bodiedAdjective1. Marked by richness and fullness of flavor; "a rich ruby port"; "full-bodied wines"; "a robust claret"; "the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "full-bodied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to a wine rich in body or substance; high extract content. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Full-bodiedSynonyms: rich (adj), robust (adj). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: full (food & agriculture), full bodied, meaty, rich. |
Crosswords: Full-bodied |
| English words defined with "full-bodied": Saint Emilion. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "full-bodied": tarry taste. (references) |
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Screenplays | More like a full-bodied dry heave set to music. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) | |
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| "Full-bodied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Full-bodied" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "full-bodied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | me aromë (spicy), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, thick, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lively, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), ضخم الجسم. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гъст (bushy, dense, double, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stiff, stringy, thick, turbid, viscous), възпълен, пълноценен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fyldig (full, full bodied, full falvour, full taste, fullness, meaty, rich, robust, spacious), med krop (fullness, meaty, robust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vlezig (meaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | täyteläinen (mellow, plump, rich). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | qui a de corps, corsé, charnu, bien en chair. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | würzig (aromatic, fragrant, fruity, piquant, spicily, spicy, tangy, tasty), mündig (appetizing, of age, responsible, Savory, savoury), körperreich (full falvour, full taste, fullness, meaty, robust). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σαρκωμένος (meaty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | testes (abdominous, big, bulky, burly, buxom, corpulent, dumpy, fat, have plenty of beef, obese). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | corpulento (burly, corpulent, fat, obese, portly, pursy, stout, tubby), corpo (body, corps, corpus, form, frame, shape, staff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | thaagagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ull-bodiedfay encorpado (corpulent, fat, fullbodied, thick). (various references) полный (absolute, abysmal, all out, complete, corpulent, crowded, entire, exhaustive, floor-to-floor, flush, fraught, fubsy, full, full-length, implicit, in flesh, in the flesh, integrate, out and out, outright, overall, plenary, plug-to-plug, plum, portly, rotund, round, seamless, teetotal, thorough, total, unabbreviated, unabridged, uncut, utter). (various references) dobrog ukusa i mirisa. (various references) de cuerpo (meaty). (various references) fyllig (ample, buxom, detailed, full, full-flavored, full-flavoured, mellow, orotund, plump, rich, well-rounded), mustig (juicy, racy, rich), köttig (fleshy, meaty). (various references) міцний (abiding, able bodied, bastard, beefy, buirdly, deep, endurable, enduring, entrenched, fast, firm, lasting, lusty, oaky, racy, sledge hammer, stable, stalwart, staunch, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial, substantive, tenacious, tough, wakeless, well knit), повнотілий. (various references) ngon (dainty, dodge, rich, succulent, toothsome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Full-bodied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fullbodied. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-f-i-l-l-o-u" | |
-3 letters: builded, bullied, doleful, dollied, doubled. | |
-4 letters: befoul, bifold, billed, bodied, boiled, bolide, bolled, boulle, buddle, bulled, dildoe, dilled, doiled, dolled, double, duelli, duello, dulled, fiddle, filled, foible, foiled, folded, fouled, fuddle, fulled, lobule. | |
-5 letters: bided, bield, blued, boded, boule, build, dildo, diode, dobie, doled, felid, field, filed, fille, fillo, flied, flued, fluid, idled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 6C 2D 62 6F 64 69 65 64 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01101100 00101101 01100010 01101111 01100100 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l l - b o d i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 006C 002D 0062 006F 0064 0069 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087787815688170757170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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