full-blooded 
adjective
1Of unmixed ancestry: a full-blooded Cherokee...
- Statistics seem to bear this out, for Australia's native population has shrunk to about 50,000 full-blooded Aborigines and about 160,000 with mixed blood.
- They willingly accept other Sami who may not be full-blooded.
- These Maltese couples then raised a generation of full-blooded Maltese children who had never lived in the mother country.
2Vigorous, enthusiastic, and without compromise: a full-blooded performance...
- He could turn a political argument into a full-blooded, passionate struggle.
- The other astonishing feature of this display was despite Ireland's full-blooded commitment, they only conceded nine penalties throughout the match.
- Morecambe, Lancaster and the North West will benefit in the long term from a full-blooded commitment to a rich array of leisure and tourist features on the central promenade.
Synonyms
all out, complete, total, uncompromising, committed, out and out, thorough, thoroughgoing, vigorous, strenuous, intense;
unrestrained, uncontrolled, unbridled, hard-hitting, pulling no punches
Derivatives
full-bloodedly
- The cast is full-bloodedly rounded out by Chiara Mangiameli, Paolo Pagliacolo, and young Sebastian Uriarte, who, without Italian descent, carries off the accent and manner of a Venetian street-and-canal urchin to perfection.
- There seems to me a danger of such applications, however unpromising their ultimate prospects, being fought so full-bloodedly and in such detail as effectively to pre-empt the permission stage.
- The narrator is somehow more vigorously alive, more full-bloodedly vital, than the wan and modest London spring.
full-bloodedness
- People, especially those in the headline business, want excitement, menace, controversy, full-bloodedness, pizazz.
- Also there is no denying the authenticity of tone, the full-bloodedness and the conviction.
- Despite their polished and steel-cold material, his works have a full-bloodedness similar to the Willendorf Venus.