Meaning & use
fully recovered
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Meanings
adjectivenot comparable
completely well again after being ill or injured.
Grammar: Used after a linking verb like be, feel, or seem: She is fully recovered.
Patterns
- be fully recovered
- feel fully recovered
- fully recovered from something
After two weeks in bed, he was fully recovered and back at work.
She is not fully recovered from her knee operation yet.
The doctor said I should be fully recovered within a month.
adjectivenot comparablebusinessfinance
completely returned to a normal or successful state after a problem.
Grammar: Often used for economies, markets, or systems: The market is fully recovered.
Patterns
- be fully recovered
- fully recovered economy
The stock market is now fully recovered from the crash.
It will take years before the region is fully recovered from the flood.
Common combinations
- fully recovered from
- He is fully recovered from the flu.
- not fully recovered
- She is still not fully recovered after the surgery.
- fully recovered patient
- The clinic discharged the fully recovered patient.
Synonyms and how they differ
- completely healed
- More often used for wounds or injuries; fully recovered is broader and can refer to general health.
- back to normal
- Informal and general; fully recovered is more specific to health or recovery from a problem.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: fully recovered or fully covered?
fully recovered vs fully covered
Fully covered means completely protected or insured; fully recovered means completely well again.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'fully recovered' correctly?
Choose one answer.
The correct pattern is be fully recovered from something. Option 1 is missing 'from', option 3 has incorrect word order, and option 4 uses the wrong form 'recover' instead of 'recovered'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “fully recovered”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.