Fulsome

//ˈfʊlsəm//

Synonyms for "fulsome" (332 found)

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Translations

22 translations across 3 languages.

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German

4 entries
  • anbiedernd adj (excessively flattering (connoting insincerity))
  • ausgiebig adj (abundant, copious)
  • entwickelt adj (fully developed, mature)
  • gereift adj (fully developed, mature)

Malayalam

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  • അമിത adj (abundant, copious)

Middle English

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  • fulsom adj (offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive)
  • fulsom adj (abundant, copious)

Sample sentences

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[T]he Weather exceeding hot, I entreated him to let me bathe in a River that was near. He conſented, and I immediately ſtripped myſelf ſtark naked, and went down ſoftly into the ſtream. It happened that a young Female Yahoo ſtanding behind a Bank, ſaw the whole proceeding, and enflamed by Deſire, as the Nag and I conjectured, came running with all ſpeed, and leaped into the Water within five Yards of the Place where I bathed. [...] She embraced me after a moſt fulſome manner; [...]

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You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.

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And by hideous contrast, a redundant orator was making a speech to another gathering not thirty steps away, in fulsome laudation of "our glorious British liberties!"

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He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs [...]

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