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Fulsome
| Fulsome Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Fulsome: buttery |
insincere |
oily |
oleaginous |
smarmy |
unctuous
Related Terms | Find terms related to Fulsome: 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 |
Fescennine |
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 |
Gongoresque |
grandiloquent |
grandiose |
grandisonant |
grave |
graveolent |
grievous |
gross |
gushing |
hateful |
heinous |
hero-worshiping |
high |
highfalutin |
high-flowing |
high-flown |
high-flying |
high-sounding |
holier-than-thou |
honeyed |
honey-mouthed |
honey-tongued |
horrible |
horrid |
hypocritical |
icky |
idolatrous |
ignoble |
ill-smelling |
impure |
infamous |
ingratiating |
inkhorn |
insincere |
insinuating |
ithyphallic |
Johnsonian |
labyrinthine |
lamentable |
lavish |
lewd |
lexiphanic |
lionizing |
little |
loathsome |
lofty |
lousy |
low |
low-down |
lumpen |
lurid |
maggoty |
magniloquent |
malodorous |
mangy |
mawkish |
mealymouthed |
mealy-mouthed |
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 |
Rabelaisian |
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
See Also |
Fulsome In Webster's Dictionary
\Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.]
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew
fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding.
2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or
grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from
excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves
will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper.
3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
[Obs.] ``Fulsome ewes.'' --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv. --
{Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden.
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