Fulsome Synonyms and Antonyms

fo͝olsəm
Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest.
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. unctuous

Words Related to Fulsome

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. attitude
  2. honest
  3. effusive
  4. effusively

Fulsome Sentence Examples

  • The era of decadence, of honorary statues and fulsome inscriptions, began.

  • A base on which stood a statue of Herodes' wife, Regilla, was found close to the facade, inscribed with fulsome praise, stating that the statue was "set up by order of the Sisyphaean Senate at the outpouring of the streams."

  • His collected works, prefaced by a fulsome panegyric, in the course of which it is said that " he was a miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate production of God Almighty than born of a woman," were produced by his son-in-law, Thomas Wilson, in 1619.

  • But the Bulgarians had skilfully exploited their primacy during the first war to induce the European press and public to regard Serbians and Greeks as mere satellites,' and, as is not unusually the case with successful propaganda, they had come to believe in it themselves, fortified in the belief by fulsome compliments addressing them as the "Prussians of the Balkans" and the "Japanese of the West."

  • But the later recensions add little, beyond fulsome dedications to Earl Robert, to the edition of 1120.

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