Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
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His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew
fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding.
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2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or
grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from
excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
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And lest the fulsome artifice should fail
Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
--Cowper.
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3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
[Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." --Shak. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fulsome
adj : unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner
or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome
introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent";
"oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the
unctuous Uriah Heep" [syn: buttery, oily, oleaginous,
smarmy, unctuous]
WordNet (r) 2.0
299 Moby Thesaurus words for "fulsome":
Fescennine, Gongoresque, Johnsonian, Rabelaisian, abhorrent,
abject, abominable, adulatory, affected, arrant, atrocious, awful,
bad, bad-smelling, barfy, base, bawdy, beastly, bedizened,
beggarly, below contempt, beneath contempt, big-sounding,
blameworthy, bland, blandishing, blarneying, blue, bombastic,
brackish, brutal, buttery, cajoling, canting, cheesy, cloying,
complimentary, contemptible, convoluted, courtierly, courtly,
crude, crummy, debased, declamatory, degraded, deplorable,
depraved, despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disarming,
disgusting, dreadful, egregious, elevated, enormous, euphuistic,
excessive, execrable, extravagant, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning,
fecal, fetid, filthy, fine-spoken, flagrant, flamboyant, flaming,
flashy, flattering, flaunting, forbidding, foul, foul-mouthed,
foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frowsty, frowy, frowzy, funky, fusty,
gamy, garish, gaudy, glib, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant,
grave, graveolent, grievous, gross, gushing, hateful, heinous,
hero-worshiping, high, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
high-sounding, highfalutin, holier-than-thou, honey-mouthed,
honey-tongued, honeyed, horrible, horrid, hypocritical, icky,
idolatrous, ignoble, ill-smelling, impure, infamous, ingratiating,
inkhorn, insincere, insinuating, ithyphallic, labyrinthine,
lamentable, lavish, lewd, lexiphanic, lionizing, little, loathsome,
lofty, lousy, low, low-down, lumpen, lurid, maggoty, magniloquent,
malodorous, mangy, mawkish, mealy-mouthed, mealymouthed, mean,
measly, mephitic, meretricious, miasmal, miasmic, mildewed,
mildewy, miserable, moldy, monstrous, musty, nasty, nauseant,
nauseating, nauseous, nefarious, nidorous, noisome, notorious,
noxious, objectionable, obnoxious, obscene, obsequious, odious,
odorous, offensive, oily, oily-tongued, oleaginous, olid, orotund,
ostentatious, outrageous, overappreciative, overdone,
overelaborate, overinvolved, overpraising, overripe, overwrought,
paltry, pecksniffian, pedantic, petty, pharisaical, pitiable,
pitiful, poisonous, poky, pompous, poor, pornographic, pretentious,
profuse, putrid, rancid, rank, raunchy, reasty, reasy, rebarbative,
reechy, reeking, reeky, regrettable, repellent, reprehensible,
reptilian, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, rhetorical, ribald,
rotten, sad, salacious, sanctimonious, satiating, sating, scabby,
scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurrile,
scurrilous, scurvy, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious,
shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, showy, sickening, slick, slimy,
slobbery, small, smarmy, smellful, smelling, smelly, smoking-room,
smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, smug, smutty, soapy,
soft-soaping, soft-spoken, sonorous, sordid, spoiled, squalid,
stenchy, stilted, stinking, strong, stuffy, suave, suave-spoken,
sulfurous, sultry, sycophantic, tall, terrible, too bad, tortuous,
uncensorious, unchaste, unclean, uncritical, uncriticizing,
unctuous, unmentionable, unprintable, unrepeatable, unreproachful,
vile, villainous, vomity, weevily, wheedling, woeful, worst,
worthless, wretched, yucky
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
buttery, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, unctuous
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