gluttonous — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.

   Synonyms

   gluttonishgluttonly

   Examples

   Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

2. Greedy.

   Examples

   Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, / And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.

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   ["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid.

   Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers!

   Look your last on your dearest ones, / Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons: / Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War.

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   One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.

   My dreams were largely based on the works of Dickens (his Mugby Junction stories), Thackeray (Jeames on the Gauge Question), and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories I kept devouring with gluttonous abandon.

Adjective

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

   Antonyms

   abstemious

   Examples

   over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands

   a gluttonous debauch

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   a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure