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Definition of "brimful" [brim•ful]

  • Full to overflowing. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "brimful" in a sentence
  • "You felt as you listened to his pleadings that sin and salvation were terms brimful of meaning to him."
  • "She was "brimful of hellcat fury," he wrote last week, recalling an episode that was presumably the 1968 equivalent of Paltrow striving to be "strong and not strident"."
  • "For parts of its complex architecture are brimful of new life, laced with sweetness that is still a lure for bumblebees."