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FULL-BODIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does full-bodied mean?
• FULL-BODIED (adjective)
The adjective FULL-BODIED has 1 sense:
1. marked by richness and fullness of flavor
Familiarity information: FULL-BODIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marked by richness and fullness of flavor
Synonyms:
full-bodied; racy; rich; robust
Context example:
the robust flavor of fresh-brewed coffee
Similar:
tasty (pleasing to the sense of taste)
Context examples
Yet all were more like skeletons than full-bodied wolves.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
These, in turn, were crowded out by Japanese women, doll-like, stepping mincingly on wooden clogs; by Eurasians, delicate featured, stamped with degeneracy; by full-bodied South-Sea-Island women, flower-crowned and brown-skinned.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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