Cornucopia vs Fulsome - What's the difference?
cornucopia | fulsome |
(Greek mythology) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted.
A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.
An abundance or plentiful supply.
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
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* 1820 , , The Monastery , ch. 35:
Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
* 1889 , , A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court , ch. 34:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , Episode 15—Circe:
Abundant, copious.
Fully developed, mature.
As a noun cornucopia
is a goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted.As an adjective fulsome is
offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.cornucopia
English
(wikipedia cornucopia)Noun
- ''The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.
Synonyms
* horn of plenty * See alsoDerived terms
* pornocopia * cornucopia machine * cornucopian * cornucopiatefulsome
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- 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!"
- Mrs. Bellingham: He addressed me in several handwritings with fulsome compliments as a Venus in furs.
- The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
- Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.