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GLUTTONOUS
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink
Example:
a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure
Classified under:
Similar:
crapulous (given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking)
crapulent; crapulous (suffering from excessive eating or drinking)
edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish (devouring or craving food in great quantities)
greedy (wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume)
hoggish; piggish; piggy; porcine; swinish (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy)
overgreedy; too-greedy (excessively gluttonous)
Also:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Attribute:
gluttony (habitual eating to excess)
Antonym:
abstemious (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink)
Derivation:
glutton (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)
