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swinish

adjective

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1 having a huge appetite

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

Synonyms of swinish

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

Words Related to swinish

hearty, wolfish

devouring, gobbling, gorging, gormandizing, gulping

insatiable, unquenchable, unslakable

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

malnourished, underfed, undernourished

Near Antonyms of swinish

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

2 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 of swinish

animalistic, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, feral, ferine, subhuman

Words Related to swinish

animal, bodily, carnal, corporal, corporeal, fleshly, physical, sensual

barbaric, barbarous, cruel, heartless, inhumane, sadistic, savage, vicious, wanton

coarse, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, lowbred, rude, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, vulgar

Near Antonyms of swinish

chivalrous, elevated, gallant, great, greathearted, high, high-minded, lofty, lordly, magnanimous, noble, sublime

angelic (or angelical), spiritual

beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, tenderhearted

cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, well-bred

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