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FULSOME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does fulsome mean?
• FULSOME (adjective)
The adjective FULSOME has 1 sense:
1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Familiarity information: FULSOME used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
Synonyms:
buttery; fulsome; oily; oleaginous; smarmy; soapy; unctuous
Context example:
soapy compliments
Similar:
insincere (lacking sincerity)
Derivation:
fulsomeness (smug self-serving earnestness)
fulsomeness (excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm)
Context examples
She embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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