- 1. a. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. Source: opted
- 2. a. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery. Source: opted
- 3. a. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity. Source: opted
- 4. adj. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech Source: wordnet
- 5. 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. Source: webster
- 6. j:100 s unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech Source: ecdict
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