Fulsome vs. Obsequious — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fulsome and Obsequious
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Fulsome
Excessively flattering or insincerely earnest.
Obsequious
Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning.
Fulsome
Disgusting or offensive
"With the stink of decaying corpses so near her cave ... suddenly she felt overpowered by the fulsome reek" (Jean Auel).
Obsequious
Excessively eager and attentive to please or to obey instructions; fawning, subservient, servile.
Fulsome
Usage Problem Copious or abundant.
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Obsequious
(archaic) Obedient; compliant with someone else's orders or wishes.
Fulsome
Offensive to good taste, tactless, overzealous, excessive.
Obsequious
(obsolete) Of or pertaining to obsequies, funereal.
Fulsome
Excessively flattering (connoting insincerity).
Obsequious
Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
His servants weeping,Obsequious to his orders, bear him hither.
Fulsome
Marked by fullness; abundant, copious.
The fulsome thanks of the war-torn nation lifted our weary spirits.
Obsequious
Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite.
There lies ever in "obsequious" at the present the sense of an observance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another.
Fulsome
Fully developed; mature.
Her fulsome timbre resonated throughout the hall.
Obsequious
Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal.
Fulsome
Full; abundant; plenteous; not shriveled.
His lean, pale, hoar, and withered corpse grew fulsome, fair, and fresh.
Obsequious
Attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery
Fulsome
Offending or disgusting by overfullness, excess, or grossness; cloying; gross; nauseous; esp., offensive from excess of praise; as, fulsome flattery.
And lest the fulsome artifice should failThemselves will hide its coarseness with a veil.
Obsequious
Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner;
Obsequious shop assistants
Fulsome
Lustful; wanton; obscene; also, tending to obscenity.
Fulsome
Unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech;
Buttery praise
Gave him a fulsome introduction
An oily sycophantic press agent
Oleaginous hypocrisy
Smarmy self-importance
The unctuous Uriah Heep
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