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    GLUTTONOUS

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     I. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Given to excess in consumption of especially food or drinkplay

    Example:

    a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure

    Classified under:

    Adjectives

    Similar:

    crapulous (given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking)

    crapulent; crapulous (suffering from excessive eating or drinking)

    edacious; esurient; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; voracious; wolfish (devouring or craving food in great quantities)

    greedy (wanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume)

    hoggish; piggish; piggy; porcine; swinish (resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy)

    overgreedy; too-greedy (excessively gluttonous)

    Also:

    indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)

    Attribute:

    gluttony (habitual eating to excess)

    Antonym:

    abstemious (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink)

    Derivation:

    glutton (a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess)

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