Synonyms of swinish

swinish

adjective

ˈswī-nish 

1

as in greedy

having a huge appetite

the more swinish diners attacked the all-you-can-eat buffet with gusto

Synonyms & Similar Words

• greedy
• piggish
• ravenous
• gluttonous
• hoggish
• starving
• hungry
• rapacious
• starved
• voracious
• edacious
• esurient
• wolfish
• devouring
• insatiable
• gobbling
• hearty
• gormandizing
• unquenchable
• underfed
• gorging
• gulping
• undernourished
• malnourished
• famished
• peckish
• unslakable
• empty

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• content
• full
• satisfied
• stuffed
• glutted
• satiated
• sated

2

as in brute

having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal

we were appalled by the rude and swinish behavior some people thought it was all right to display in public

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brute
• brutal
• feral
• brutish
• subhuman
• bestial
• animal
• animalistic
• savage
• beastly
• cruel
• ferine
• vicious
• crass
• physical
• sensual
• coarse
• carnal
• corporeal
• rude
• vulgar
• bodily
• corporal
• sadistic
• barbarous
• barbaric
• fleshly
• heartless
• uncouth
• gross
• inhumane
• wanton
• uncultured
• crude
• uncultivated
• unrefined
• ill-bred
• lowbred

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• sublime
• noble
• lordly
• gallant
• high
• elevated
• magnanimous
• lofty
• great
• chivalrous
• spiritual
• angelic
• high-minded
• kind
• benevolent
• beneficent
• compassionate
• kindly
• cultured
• cultivated
• genteel
• refined
• polished
• softhearted
• greathearted
• benignant
• kindhearted
• good-hearted
• well-bred
• tenderhearted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of swinish

Consider this evilmeister’s brazen acts of treason and revenge, unbounded deceit, swinish immorality and negative role modeling. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026

Little-Turnstile, High Holborn, London, Spence turned out a penny weekly called Pig’s Meat; or lessons for the swinish multitude. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 7 Sep. 2025

Another, Cora, is saddled with a swinish husband who tries to gaslight her whenever his chronic infidelity is exposed. — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 27 May 2022