well-filled
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.68 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Sufficiently full, without being full to overflowing.
Example Sentences
- "Speaking of locomotive surefootedness, I was immensely impressed, on a recent journey with the down "Ulsterman" from Euston, when "Royal Scot" 4-6-0 No. 46168, The Girl Guide, cleanly lifted a well-filled 15-coach train of 471 tons tare and 500 tons gross out of the terminus without the service of any banking engine."
- "The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future."
- "Again, the 9.00 Kings Cross-Newcastle is very variable in its loading, but the 17.00 back, on which most of the stock returns, is usually well-filled."
Inflected Forms
more well-filled (comparative)
most well-filled (superlative)