gluttonous

Adjective

Meaning

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

epicurean porcine piggy cormorant gobbler eager hungry extravagant avid predatory starved greedy grasping carnivorous voracious
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Antonyms

abstemious spartan airy content collected comfortable
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Related terms

gluttony glutton gluttonously

Examples

Why – even supposing I had the skill – do you bid me compose a song dedicated to Venus the lover of Fescennine mirth, placed as I am among long-haired hordes, having to endure German speech, praising oft with wry face the song of the gluttonous Burgundian who spreads rancid butter on his hair? Sidonius Apollinaris

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing. Jonathan Safran Foer

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. Simon Mainwaring

over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands Source: Internet

a gluttonous debauch Source: Internet

a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

gluttonish gluttonism gluttonize gluttonously gluttonousness gluttony