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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gluttonous \Glut"ton*ous\, adjective Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- {Glut"ton*ous*ly}, adverb -- {Glut"ton*ous*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gluttonous
adjective: given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure" [ant: {abstemious}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "gluttonous": Apician, a bit much, abandoned, all-devouring, bibulous, bolting, boundless, cannibal, cannibalistic, carnivorous, commensal, cramming, crapulent, crapulous, dietetic, dining, eating, edacious, egregious, enormous, esurient, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gigantic, glutting, gluttonizing, gobbling, gorging, grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating, greedy, gulping, guttling, guzzling, herbivorous, high, hoggish, hyperbolic, hyperphagic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, indulgent, inordinate, insatiable, insect-eating, insectivorous, intemperate, lactovegetarian, man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, monstrous, nourishing, nutritious, omnivorous, omophagous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overgreat, overgrown, overindulgent, overindulging, overlarge, overmuch, overweening, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous, piggish, plant-eating, polyphagic, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial, prodigal, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, self-indulgent, steep, stiff, stuffing, swinish, too much, unbridled, unconscionable, unconstrained, uncontrolled, undisciplined, undue, unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasured, unreasonable, unrestrained, unthrifty, vegetable-eating, vegetarian, voracious, wolfing
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