'Fulsome' definitions:
Definition of 'fulsome'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous]
Definition of 'Fulsome'
From: GCIDE
- Fulsome \Ful"some\, a. [Full, a. + -some.]
- 1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh. --Golding. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. [1913 Webster]
- And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. [Obs.] "Fulsome ewes." --Shak. -- {Ful"some*ly}, adv. -- {Ful"some*ness}, n. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fulsome'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- 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,
- Johnsonian,
- 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,
- 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