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fully_well

fully well

English

Adverb

fully well (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of full well

Usage notes

In ordinary modern English, adverbs modify adverbs, so the phrase fully well would be standard. However, the phrase full well, a surviving usage of full itself as an adverb, is more common than fully well, which is sometimes considered incorrect or a hypercorrection. This is most often used to modify the verb to know.

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