Fully vs Fulsome - What's the difference?
fully | fulsome |
In a full manner; without lack or defect.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 In a full degree; to a full extent.
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As a minimum; at least.
* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times
, passage=In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.}}
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 an adverb fully
is in a full manner; without lack or defect.As an adjective fulsome is
offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.fully
English
Adverb
(en-adv)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
- The lobule margins, furthermore, are arched away from the lobe, with the consequence that (when fully inflated) the abaxial leaf surface forms the interior lining of the lobule.
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Synonyms
* (in a full manner) * (to a full extent) (undifferentiated synonyms) * completely * entirely * maturely * plentifully * abundantly * plenteously * copiously * largely * amply * sufficiently * perfectlyfulsome
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.