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1. • Abundant, excessive, or insincere

     • Fulsome typically refers to something that is abundant, excessive, or insincere, especially in regards to compliments or praise. It often carries a negative connotation and suggests that something is overdone to the point of being tasteless or offensive.
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   The meaning of FULSOME is characterized by abundance : copious. How to use fulsome in a sentence. You Don't Need to Get Negative About Fulsome Using Fulsome: Usage Guide.

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   FULSOME definition: 1. expressing a lot of admiration or praise for someone, often too much, in a way that does not…. Learn more.

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   Fulsome is an example of a "skunked term," where there is disagreement over conflicting meanings. Compliments usually make you feel pretty good, but fulsome compliments, which are exaggerated and usually insincere, may have the opposite effect.

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   Two of the traditional senses of fulsome are (1) offensively, excessively flattering, and (2) excessive in a distasteful way. In both these senses, the adjective is usually negative. A fulsome piece of music, for instance, might be one that is overloud and too busy-sounding.

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   Even though full is usually a positive word, fulsome can have pejorative connotations in phrases like "fulsome praise," where it is often taken to mean “effusive, excessive, or insincere praise.”

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishFULSOME definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   1. excessive or insincere, esp in an offensive or distasteful way. fulsome compliments. 2. not standard. extremely complimentary. 3. informal. full, rich, or abundant. a fulsome figure. a fulsome flavour.

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   What does 'fulsome' mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! FULSOME definition: 1. expressing a lot of admiration or praise for someone, often too much, in a way that does not…. Learn more.

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   Is fulsome a negative word?

   • In both these senses, the adjective is usually negative. A fulsome piece of music, for instance, might be one that is overloud and too busy-sounding. In modern usage, however, the word often means copious or abundant without negative connotations. In this use, the word is often embedded in the phrase fulsome praise.

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   What is a synonym for Fulsome?

   • Hundreds of years ago fulsome used to mean "abundant," but now it's more often used to describe an ingratiating manner or an excess of flattery that might provoke an onlooker to mime gagging. If you find fulsome to be a rather clunky word, there are several fun (if vaguely stomach-churning) synonyms, including buttery, oily, oleaginous, and smarmy.

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   What does fulsome praise mean?

   • Unless the context is made very clear, the reader or hearer cannot be sure whether such an expression as "fulsome praise" is meant in sense 1b or in sense 4. Did you know? In the 19th century, fulsome was mostly a literary term used disapprovingly to describe excessive, insincere praise and flattery.

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   What is a fulsome style?

   • The style is fulsome and fanciful, and unlike his own crisp utterance of previous or subsequent periods. None of the fulsome praise, the superlative, necessary definition given to lesser performers. The abject creature sprang up, pouring out a fulsome stream of thanks and blessings.

   FULSOME | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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   Is fullsome a word?

   • It seems that full and foul are radically the same word, the primary sense of which is stuffed, crowded, from the sense of putting on or in. In the United States, the compound fullsome takes its signification from full, in the sense of cloying or satiating, and in England, fulsome takes its predominant sense from foulness.

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