Meaning & use
fulsome
Very generous or abundant in praise, often to the point of seeming excessive or insincere.
See it in a sentence
The critic's fulsome praise for the new restaurant made some readers suspicious of a paid review.
He offered a fulsome apology, though few in the room believed he truly meant it.
A note on using this word
Fulsome traditionally carries a negative sense of insincere excess, though it is now often used more loosely and approvingly to mean simply 'abundant' or 'complete'; be aware readers may interpret it either way.
Words with a similar meaning
excessiveeffusive
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Words with an opposite meaning
sparserestrained
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