gluttonous

adjective

glut·​ton·​ous ˈglə-tə-nəs How to pronounce gluttonous (audio)
ˈglət-nəs
: marked by or given to gluttony
a gluttonous appetite
gluttonously adverb
gluttonousness noun
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voracious, gluttonous, ravenous, rapacious mean excessively greedy.

voracious applies especially to habitual gorging with food or drink.

teenagers are often voracious eaters

gluttonous applies to one who delights in eating or acquiring things especially beyond the point of necessity or satiety.

an admiral who was gluttonous for glory

ravenous implies excessive hunger and suggests violent or grasping methods of dealing with food or with whatever satisfies an appetite.

a nation with a ravenous lust for territorial expansion

rapacious often suggests excessive and utterly selfish acquisitiveness or avarice.

rapacious developers indifferent to environmental concerns

Examples of gluttonous in a Sentence

gluttonous customers had practically emptied the all-you-can-eat buffet
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Another venerable Caribbean Carnival tradition is the breakfast party, which on paper sounds like bona-fide madness: wake up in the middle of the night, go to a nice venue, drink and dance until the sun rises, eat a gluttonous drunken breakfast, then return home to get back in bed and knock out. Baz Dreisinger, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2025 Football obstructs transfers One club who didn’t spend much in January by their own gluttonous standards were Chelsea, whose only ‘incomings’ amounted to the arrival of young midfielder Mathis Amougou from Saint-Etienne and a recall for Trevoh Chalabah from his loan spell at Crystal Palace. Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 14 Feb. 2025 That’s a gluttonous use of spectral bandwidth by today’s standards. IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2010 Gets Surprise Company Woman Leaves Chicken Breast Out To Defrost, Cat Seizes His Opportunity While dogs are often seen as gluttonous, cats can be just as food-motivated. Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gluttonous

Word History

Etymology

see glutton

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gluttonous was in the 14th century

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“Gluttonous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gluttonous. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.

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