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

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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

Towana Looney lived with a pig kidney for a then-record 130 days before it was removed in April 2025 because her body began rejecting it.

— David K. Li, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
But scientists weren’t sure if temporary replacement pig organs would cause someone to produce antibodies that could complicate a human-to-human transplant.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of pig

Noun

These companies went from being these cash-rich, asset-light, beautiful vehicles to becoming these bloated asset hogs.

— Jack Holmes, Vanity Fair, 1 Sep. 2026
There are no closed seasons or bag limits for feral hogs on private property, and a hunting license is not required when hunters have landowner authorization.

— Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026