Unfull

//ʌnˈfʊl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not full or complete; incomplete, imperfect.

    "[T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole."

Example

More examples

"[T]h’vn-full Harmony / Of vn-even Hammers, beating diverſly, / VVakens the tunes that his [Tubal-cain’s] ſvveet numbery ſoule / Yer birth (ſom think) learn’d of the vvarbling Pole."

Etymology

From Middle English unfulle (“incomplete”), from un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + ful (“filled to capacity, full; complete, whole”) (from Old English ful, full (“filled, full; complete, entire”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The English word is analysable as un- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + full.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.