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GLUTTONOUS

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• GLUTTONOUS (adjective)
The adjective GLUTTONOUS has 1 sense:

1. given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink

Familiarity information: GLUTTONOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

• GLUTTONOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink

Context examples:

over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands / a gluttonous debauch / a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure

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)

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