Meaning of GLUTTONOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'glutnus
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[adj] given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" |
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GLUTTONOUS is a 10 letter word that starts with G. |
| | Synonyms: | | crapulent, crapulous, edacious, esurient, greedy, hoggish, overgreedy, piggish, piggy, porcine, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, scavenging, swinish, too-greedy, voracious, wolfish |
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| | Antonyms: | | abstemious | | |
| | See Also: | | indulgent | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glut"ton*ous\, a.
Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite;
voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- {Glut"ton*ous*ly}, adv.
-- {Glut"ton*ous*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | a bit much, abandoned, all-devouring, Apician, bibulous, bolting, boundless, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, dietetic, dining, eating, edacious, egregious, enormous, esurient, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gigantic, glutting, gluttonizing, gobbling, gorging, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, herbivorous, high, hoggish, hyperbolic, hyperphagic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inordinate, insatiable, insect-eating, insectivorous, intemperate, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, monstrous, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piggish, plant-eating, polyphagic, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, prodigal, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, self-indulgent, steep, stiff, stuffing, swinish, too much, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrifty, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, voracious, wolfing |
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