gluttonous

adjective

glut·​ton·​ous ˈglə-tə-nəs 

ˈglət-nəs

: marked by or given to gluttony

a gluttonous appetite

gluttonously adverb

gluttonousness noun

Synonyms

• edacious
• esurient
• greedy
• hoggish
• piggish
• rapacious
• ravenous
• swinish
• voracious

Choose the Right Synonym for gluttonous

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

Recent Examples on the Web

To devour one in a single bite would be gluttonous. —Tanya Sichynsky, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025

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

Word History

Etymology

see glutton

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above