Word Meanings - GLUTTONOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLUTTONOUS)

• Greed
• Gluttonous
• voracious
• hungry
• desirous
• avaricious
• Ravenous
• Voracious
• gluttonous
• rapacious
• omnivorous

Related words: (words related to GLUTTONOUS)

• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• GREENLET
  l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• RAVENOUS
  1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
• GREENSAND
  A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
• GREENFISH
  See POLLOCK
• GREENOCKITE
  Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREENHOUSE
  A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
• GREENWEED
  See GREENBROOM
• GREASINESS
  The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• GREEN-STALL
  A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
• GREMIAL
  Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
• GRE
  See STEP
• GREENISH
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• ARM-GRET
  Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
• AGGREGATOR
  One who aggregates.
• SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
  See GRAIL
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• UNPEDIGREED
  Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• REGREDE
  To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.
• RETROGRESS
  Retrogression. H. Spenser.
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• CONGRESSIVE
  Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
• AYEGREEN
  The houseleek . Halliwell.