■ adjective
1》 complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree.
2》 of large size or quantity; generous or abundant.
Derivatives
~ly adverb
~ness noun
Origin
ME: from full 1 + -some 1 .
Usage
Although the earliest use of ~ was ‘abundant’, this meaning was replaced by the negative sense ‘excessively complimentary’, and is now generally held to be incorrect. It is often heard in phrases such as ~ praise , however, where the speaker merely means that the praise is abundant rather than excessively flattering.