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swinish

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of swinish

1 having a huge appetite

an eating contest for swinish competitors

Synonyms of swinish

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

convincingly played the swinish villian

Synonyms of swinish

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