Word Meanings - FULSOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. 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

Additional info about word: FULSOME

1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. 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. "Fulsome ewes." Shak. -- Ful"some*ly, adv. -- Ful"some*ness, n. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FULSOME)

• Unctuous
• Oily
• smooth
• fawning
• flattering
• fulsome
• sycophantic
• complimentary

Related words: (words related to FULSOME)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• FAWN
  A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak.
• FAWNINGLY
  In a fawning manner.
• SMOOTH
  Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• FAWN-COLORED
  Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• SMOOTHER
  One who, or that which, smooths.
• SMOOTHING
  fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
• FLATTERING
  That flatters ; as, a flattering speech. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. Shak. A flattering painter, who made it his care, To draw men as they ought be, not as they are. Goldsmith.
• FULSOME
  1. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled. 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
• FAWNER
  One who fawns; a sycophant.
• SMOOTH-TONGUED
  Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
• SYCOPHANTIC; SYCOPHANTICAL
  Of or pertaining to a sycophant; characteristic of a sycophant; meanly or obsequiously flattering; courting favor by mean adulation; parasitic. To be cheated and ruined by a sycophantical parasite. South. Sycophantic servants to the King of Spain.
• SMOOTHBORE
  Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• OUTFAWN
  To exceed in fawning.
• OUTFLATTER
  To exceed in flattering.