fill

1. 1.

   a quantity sufficient to satisfy

   “he ate his fill of potatoes”

   “she had heard her fill of gossip”

   Broaderenough
2. 2.

   any material that fills a space or container

   “there was not enough fill for the trench”

   Synonymsfilling

   Broadermaterial

   Narrowercement

Other forms of fill

plural

fills·

past tense

filled·

present participle

filling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fill

What does fill mean?

fill means "make full, also in a metaphorical sense". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fill?

fill has 1 syllable: fill. In IPA it is /ˈfɪl/.

What is another word for fill?

Close synonyms include fill up, make full, fill up, occupy, take. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fill?

The recorded antonyms are empty, empty.

Is fill a common word?

fill is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fill?

4 words rhyme with fill. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.