Fulsome

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  • adjective. Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest. synonym: unctuous.
  • adjective. Disgusting or offensive.
  • adjective. Copious or abundant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Full; full and plump; fat.
  • Causing surfeit; cloying.
  • Offensive from excess, as of praise or demonstrative affection; gross.
  • Nauseous; offensive; disgusting.
  • Lustful; wanton.
  • Tending to obscenity; coarse: as, a fulsome epigram.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
  • adjective. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise.
  • adjective. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
  • adjective. Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
  • adjective. Abundant, copious.
  • adjective. Fully developed, mature.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
  • Word Usage
    "V. i.112 (241,5) [as fat and fulsome] [W: flat] _Fat_ means _dull_; so we say a _fatheaded_ fellow; _fat_ likewise means _gross_, and is sometimes used for _obscene_; and _fat_ is more congruent to _fulsome_ than _flat_."
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