Fulsome 1100 Words You Need Week 21 Day 1

Fulsome 1100 Words You Need Fulsome 1100 Words You Need /ˈfʊls(ə)m/ (adj) excessive, too extreme, insincere, excessively complimentary, flattering, immoderate, sycophantic, obsequious, lavish, overgenerous, fawning Fulsome has a useful meaning as insincerely gushing, cloying and annoyingly excessive. I've written here in the past that this meaning is under siege. Now I'd say it's on life support. Many people use fulsome as a synonym for effusive, which is unfortunate, since effusive does that job quite nicely and fulsome is needed elsewhere. Many others use it simply to mean full or complete. "For example," reader Norman MacInnes writes, "I spotted the following ...

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