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Definition of Gluttonous
1. Adjective. Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink. "A gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"
Similar to: Crapulous, Crapulent, Crapulous, Edacious, Esurient, Rapacious, Ravening, Ravenous, Voracious, Wolfish, Greedy, Hoggish, Piggish, Piggy, Porcine, Swinish, Overgreedy, Too-greedy
Also: Indulgent
Antonyms: Abstemious
Derivative terms: Glutton
Definition of Gluttonous
1. a. Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.
Definition of Gluttonous
1. Adjective. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating. ¹
2. Adjective. Greedy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gluttonous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gluttonous
Literary usage of Gluttonous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"They were fond of gluttonous feasts, in which they often heedlessly devoured
their whole winter's store. Unlike their neighbors of Mexico and the West ..."
2. Sermons by Frederick Brooks, Phillips Brooks (1876)
"The Son of Man is come eating and drinking ; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man,
and a wine- bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!" — ST. LUKE vii. ..."
3. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"He is uxorious and gluttonous, but in other respects abstinent and laborious in
public affairs.—His enlightened policy and able government of the provinces. ..."
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