Dictionary

gluttonous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈɡlʌt(ə)nəs/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Middle English glotenose, glotenouse, glotonos, glotonous, glotounius, glotynous, from Middle French glotonos; equivalent to glutton + -ous.

Meanings

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
   • Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 11:19:
2. Greedy.
   • Look your last on your dearest ones, / Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons: / Swift they go to the ravenous guns, / The gluttonous guns of War. 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:
   • ["]The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly," … "and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly," content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid. 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Higher Laws”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 231:
   • Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, / And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
   • One day the mail-man found no village there, / Nor were its folk or houses seen again; / People came out from Aylesbury to stare – / Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain / That he was mad for saying he had spied / The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide. 1929, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:
   • My dreams were largely based on the works of Dickens (his Mugby Junction stories), Thackeray (Jeames on the Gauge Question), and Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories I kept devouring with gluttonous abandon. 2026 April 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Literature on the track”, in RAIL, number 1058, page 68:
   • Do the feasters gluttonous feast? / Do the corpulent sleepers sleep? have they lock'd and bolted doors? / Still be ours the diet hard, and the blanket on the ground, / Pioneers! O pioneers! 1865 October 28, Walt Whitman, “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”, in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, New York, N.Y.: […] [Peter Eckler], →OCLC, stanza 24, page 29:

Forms

Deriveds

gluttonousness · ungluttonous · overgluttonous

Relateds

gluttony · gluttonously · glutton

Synonyms

gluttonish · gluttonly

Translations (102)

gl gorxón (greedy — see also greedy) · ja 貪欲な (greedy — see also greedy) · gl lanfreán (greedy — see also greedy) · gl lurco (greedy — see also greedy) · yue 為食 /为食 (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · de gierig (greedy — see also greedy) · es comelón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · fur golôs (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · kea guloze (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · mi pūkino (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gl ofegante (greedy — see also greedy) · id caruk (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · grc ἀδηφάγος (greedy — see also greedy) · uk ненаже́рливий (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · la lurcinābundus (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · de unersättlich (greedy — see also greedy) · ru жа́дный (greedy — see also greedy) · sq hamës (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · et ablas (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · la gulōsus (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · pt guloso (greedy — see also greedy) · es hartón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es garoso (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · grc γαστρίμαργος (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ar جَشِع (greedy — see also greedy) · gl lambaz (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · el αδηφάγος (greedy — see also greedy) · grc ἀδηφάγος (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gl comellón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · kea laskadu (greedy — see also greedy) · es glotón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · bg ненаситен (greedy — see also greedy) · hy որկրամոլ (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · de gefräßig (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · et ahne (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · bg ненаситен (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ro mâncăcios (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · pt guloso (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gd gionach (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · grc λίχνος (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · tr obur (greedy — see also greedy) · es zampón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · tr obur (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es ávido (greedy — see also greedy) · mi pukukai (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · mi honekai (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gd sanntach (greedy — see also greedy) · kea gulós (greedy — see also greedy) · tr açgözlü (greedy — see also greedy) · vi phàm ăn (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · kea gulós (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ru ненасы́тный (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gd craosach (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es goloso (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · bg алчен (greedy — see also greedy) · gl lambón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · id lahap (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ar نَهِم (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · hy անհագ (greedy — see also greedy) · fi ahnas (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · mi homanga (greedy — see also greedy) · hy ագահ (greedy — see also greedy) · es tragón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ota اوبور (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · pt glutão (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es comilón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ru прожо́рливый (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ca golós (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · cmn 暴食的 (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · fr gourmand (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · grc λαίμαργος (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · de verfressen (greedy — see also greedy) · id rakus (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · cmn 貪婪 /贪婪 (greedy — see also greedy) · fr avide (greedy — see also greedy) · fr vorace (greedy — see also greedy) · nl vraatzuchtig (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ar شَرِه (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · el λαίμαργος (greedy — see also greedy) · fi ahnas (greedy — see also greedy) · fr glouton (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · la edāx (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ja 飽くなき (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · ru ненасы́тный (greedy — see also greedy) · kea laskadu (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es codicioso (greedy — see also greedy) · cmn 貪嘴 /贪嘴 (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · fr goulu (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · cmn 饞 /馋 (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · bg чревоугоднически (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · el λαίμαργος (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · de unersättlich (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · fr goulu (greedy — see also greedy) · cs nenasytný (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · mi homanga (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · sq hamës (greedy — see also greedy) · kea guloze (greedy — see also greedy) · gd gionach (greedy — see also greedy) · ota قورساقسز (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · es tragantón (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating) · gl lurpio (greedy — see also greedy) · gl galdrumeiro (given to excessive eating; prone to overeating)