Fulsome Definition

fo͝olsəm
adjective
Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest.
American Heritage
Disgusting or offensive, esp. because excessive or insincere.
Fulsome praise.
Webster's New World
Full; ample; abundant.
Webster's New World

Fully developed, mature.

Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
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Origin of Fulsome

  • From Middle English fulsum, equivalent to full +‎ -some. The meaning has evolved from an original positive connotation "abundant" to a neutral "plump" to a negative "overfed". In modern usage it can take on any of these inflections. See usage note

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English fulsom abundant, well-fed, arousing disgust ful full full1 -som adj. suff. –some1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fulsome Sentence Examples

  • The era of decadence, of honorary statues and fulsome inscriptions, began.

  • A base on which stood a statue of Herodes' wife, Regilla, was found close to the facade, inscribed with fulsome praise, stating that the statue was "set up by order of the Sisyphaean Senate at the outpouring of the streams."

  • His collected works, prefaced by a fulsome panegyric, in the course of which it is said that " he was a miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate production of God Almighty than born of a woman," were produced by his son-in-law, Thomas Wilson, in 1619.

  • But the Bulgarians had skilfully exploited their primacy during the first war to induce the European press and public to regard Serbians and Greeks as mere satellites,' and, as is not unusually the case with successful propaganda, they had come to believe in it themselves, fortified in the belief by fulsome compliments addressing them as the "Prussians of the Balkans" and the "Japanese of the West."

  • But the later recensions add little, beyond fulsome dedications to Earl Robert, to the edition of 1120.

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