GLUTTON Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

glutton

noun

ˈglə-tᵊn

Definition of glutton

as in pig

one who eats greedily or too much he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Recent Examples of glutton Not to mention the obese little gluttons. — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards. — Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 The bad guys are rich gluttons, the good guys are the struggling poor. — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for glutton

Recent Examples of Synonyms for glutton

Noun

The fairgrounds on Tully Road will have Alaskan pigs racing, kids screaming on carnival rides and the usual assortment of huge corndogs, strawberry shortcakes and a variety of new fair food like tamales, bao buns and kabobs.

— Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026
Conspiracy theories — of euthanasia, of sterilization, of American bad intentions involving CIA spies, of viruses bred in pig cells (for those who kept Halal) or monkey cells (to Hindus for whom the macaque is sacred) — were common.

— Eli Cahan, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of pig

Noun

Because across the shoulders, one of those big hogs is way more dense than a grizzly bear.

— Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2026
Basic economic theory says landowners would wait for others to spend the time, money and energy to control hogs—which means nobody does, and the problems grow.

— Chris Boyer, Scientific American, 16 Aug. 2026