Fulsome: Definition and part of speech

Fulsome

  1. a. Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
  2. a. Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
  3. a. Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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