fulsome

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fulsome


Adjective

fulsome (comparative more fulsome, superlative most fulsome)


  1. Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
    • 1727, Jonathan Swift, Gullivers Travels, Ch. 35:
      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 inflamed by desire . . . embraced me after a most fulsome manner.
    • 1820, Sir Walter Scott, The Monastery, ch. 35:
      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.
  2. Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
    • 1889, Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court, ch. 34:
      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!""
    • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 15—Circe:
      Mrs. Bellingham: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs.
  3. Abundant, copious.
    The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
  4. Fully developed, mature.
    Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.

Definizione dizionario fulsome


Traduzione fulsome


disgustoso ,eccessivo ,esagerato ,insincero ,nauseante

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