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surfeit

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of surfeit

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed

  • ended up with a surfeit of volunteers who simply got in each otherʼs way
Synonyms of surfeit

bellyful, excess, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, surplusage
Words Related to surfeit

abundance, bounty, plentitude, plenty, profusion, sufficiency

overproduction, overstock
Near Antonyms of surfeit

dearth, lack, scarcity, want
Antonyms of surfeit

deficiency, deficit, insufficiency, undersupply

surfeit

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of surfeit

to fill with food to capacity

  • having surfeited ourselves on raw oysters, we had to decline the rest of the restaurantʼs offerings
Synonyms of surfeit

cram, glut, gorge, sate, stuff
Words Related to surfeit

gobble, gormandize, pig out

gulp, guzzle

cloy, fill

banquet, feast, regale
Near Antonyms of surfeit

diet, fast

Synonym Discussion of surfeit

satiate, sate, surfeit, cloy, pall, glut, gorge mean to fill to repletion. satiate and sate may sometimes imply only complete satisfaction but more often suggest repletion that has destroyed interest or desire.
    • years of globe-trotting had satiated their interest in travel
    • readers were sated with sensationalistic stories
surfeit implies a nauseating repletion.
    • surfeited themselves with junk food
cloy stresses the disgust or boredom resulting from such surfeiting.
    • sentimental pictures that cloy after a while
pall emphasizes the loss of ability to stimulate interest or appetite.
    • a life of leisure eventually begins to pall
glut implies excess in feeding or supplying.
    • a market glutted with diet books
gorge suggests glutting to the point of bursting or choking.
    • gorged themselves with chocolate

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