Fulsome
adjective
Excessive or insincere, especially in terms of praise or flattery.
Her fulsome admiration for the director was obvious during the interview.
Often appears as...
- fulsome praise
- fulsome apology
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Large in size or quantity; generous or abundant.
The holiday feast was fulsome, with tables piled high with food and drink.
Often appears as...
- fulsome feast
- fulsome meal
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Literary
adjective
Excessive or insincere, especially in terms of praise or flattery.
Her fulsome admiration for the director was obvious during the interview.
Often appears as...
- fulsome praise
- fulsome apology
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
adjective
Large in size or quantity; generous or abundant.
The holiday feast was fulsome, with tables piled high with food and drink.
Often appears as...
- fulsome feast
- fulsome meal
Usage tips
Formal, Approving
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'fulsome' can imply insincerity or unpleasant excessiveness, often perceived negatively.
Her fulsome praise made the audience uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Sarcastic Context
In modern use, 'fulsome' often appears in sarcastic comments where the praise is clearly too much.
A fulsome smile plastered on his face, he congratulated his rival.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Overuse
Be cautious when using 'fulsome' to avoid misunderstanding since it can be taken as fake enthusiasm.
The new actor received fulsome acclaim, but few took it seriously.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'fulsome' can imply insincerity or unpleasant excessiveness, often perceived negatively.
Her fulsome praise made the audience uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Sarcastic Context
In modern use, 'fulsome' often appears in sarcastic comments where the praise is clearly too much.
A fulsome smile plastered on his face, he congratulated his rival.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Overuse
Be cautious when using 'fulsome' to avoid misunderstanding since it can be taken as fake enthusiasm.
The new actor received fulsome acclaim, but few took it seriously.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Using 'fulsome' can imply insincerity or unpleasant excessiveness, often perceived negatively.
Her fulsome praise made the audience uncomfortable.
Pro Tip 2/3Sarcastic Context
In modern use, 'fulsome' often appears in sarcastic comments where the praise is clearly too much.
A fulsome smile plastered on his face, he congratulated his rival.
Pro Tip 3/3Avoiding Overuse
Be cautious when using 'fulsome' to avoid misunderstanding since it can be taken as fake enthusiasm.
The new actor received fulsome acclaim, but few took it seriously.
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We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics and did a fulsome investigation and found that two other,
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How I help free innocent...
We knew what really happened; someone told them to say this. We don't exactly know who, which person did, but any rate, the confession was coerced, we determined. We then went back and did forensics and did a fulsome investigation and found that two other,
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Will Self
English Author
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
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Martin Jacques
British Journalist
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
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Graeme Base
English Artist
Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.
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Richard Cobden
British Businessman
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
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Rick Perlstein
American Historian
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
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George Jean Nathan
American Editor
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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Will Self
English Author
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
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Martin Jacques
British Journalist
After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.
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Graeme Base
English Artist
Some people can sit and enjoy the view... some people like to take photos to feel complete. I need to somehow possess it in some other way. I just have to somehow grasp it and take it home in a more fulsome way. It's where ideas come from.
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Rick Wilson
American Author
Obama was referred to in terms so glowing, so fulsome, so toadying that it was easy to pin down the journalist class of 2008 as a group of fangirls squeeing and fainting at his every utterance.
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Richard Cobden
British Businessman
I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Quote examples
Rick Perlstein
American Historian
Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to antiabortion rallies on the Mall.
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George Jean Nathan
American Editor
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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