Full-grown means completely adult and done growing. Nothing more is coming.
It is used most about animals and plants, so a full-grown stag or a full-grown oak, and it carries a note of surprise at the size. Applied to people it is usually a reproach, since a full-grown man behaving like that is being told off. It goes before a noun with a hyphen. Fully grown means the same thing and is written as two words after a verb.
1adjectivefull-grownHaving reached full adult size.
“A full-grown badger is heavier than most people expect.”
Also accepted in games: fully grown
Middle English
*fulgrowen
English, today
full-grown
From Middle English fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 13 of A Man Called Ove.
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