Fully and Sparingly

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Fully adverb - Sufficiently; more than adequately.

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Sparingly is an antonym for fully.

Nearby Word: full

Sparingly adverb - To a meager degree or in a meager manner.

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Fully is an antonym for sparingly.

Nearby Words: sparing, sparsely

Awesome, but Impractical: The Atomic Fire is very powerful and looks cool when fully charged, but it chews up so much ammo that it's best used sparingly, and otherwise its normal shot is so pathetically weak that it's all but useless.

Source: Video Game / Mega Man 2

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