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gluttonous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of gluttonous

having a huge appetite

gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet

Synonyms of gluttonous

edacious, esurient, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, swinish, voracious

Words Related to gluttonous

hearty, wolfish

devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping

insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable

empty, famished, hungry, peckish [chiefly British], starved, starving

malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms of gluttonous

content, full, glutted, sated, satiated, satisfied, stuffed

Synonym Discussion of gluttonous

voracious, gluttonous, ravenous, rapacious mean excessively greedy. voracious applies especially to habitual gorging with food or drink.

- teenagers are often voracious eaters

gluttonous applies to one who delights in eating or acquiring things especially beyond the point of necessity or satiety.

- an admiral who was gluttonous for glory

ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite.

- a nation with a ravenous lust for territorial expansion

rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquisitiveness or avarice.

- rapacious developers indifferent to environmental concerns

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