Synonyms and Antonyms of fulsome
1
overly or insincerely flattering
- the player's fulsome praise for the coach showed just how hard he was trying to be named captain of the team
drooling, slavering, slobbering
cloying, sickening
demonstrative, effusive, mushy, uninhibited, unreserved, unrestrained
artificial, backhanded, feigned, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealymouthed, sanctimonious, two-faced
disarming, endearing, ingratiating, winning, winsome
extravagant, lavish, unrestrained
abundant, copious, profuse
artless, earnest, genuine, heartfelt, honest, ingenuous, sincere, true, unaffected, unfeigned, unpretending, unpretentious
2
giving or sharing in abundance and without hesitation
- grateful survivors who were fulsome in their praise of the rescue team
bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, free, freehanded, freehearted, generous, liberal, munificent, open, openhanded, unselfish, unsparing, unstinting
extravagant, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profuse
altruistic, beneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic (also philanthropical)
big, greathearted, largehearted, magnanimous, openhearted
compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindly, samaritan, sympathetic
mean, petty, small
frugal, spare, sparing, thrifty
chary, stinting
acquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious
begrudging, envious, grudging, resentful
cheap, close, closefisted, costive, illiberal [archaic], mingy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, selfish, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous
3
causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment
- the author perpetuates some truly fulsome stereotypes in her novel
abhorrent, abominable, appalling, awful, disgusting, distasteful, dreadful, evil, foul, gross, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, rancid, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scandalous, shocking
