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FULL-BLOWN: Dictionary Entry and Meaning

Pronunciation:  'fûl'blown

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adj]  having or displaying all the characteristics necessary for completeness; "a full-blown financial crisis"
  2. [adj]  fully ripe; at the height of bloom; "a full-blown rose"
 
 Synonyms: complete, mature, matured
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Full"-blown`\, a.
1. Fully expanded, as a blossom; as, a full-bloun rose.
   --Denham.
2. Fully distended with wind, as a sail. --Dryden.
 

 

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