gluttonous

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities

US /ˈɡlʌtənəs/ UK /ˈɡlʌtənəs/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

adj
given to excessive eating; greedy

His gluttonous appetite emptied the buffet within minutes.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 adj · given to excessive eating;... greedy voracious insatiable ravenouspiggishgormandizing

Opposites

abstemious temperate moderate ascetic

Word family

Derived forms gluttonouslygluttonousness

Related forms glutton gluttony glut

Etymology

From glutton + -ous, from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto ('glutton'), related to gluttire ('to swallow').

glutto Latin gluttire Latin

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Describing Qualities Word Formation & Derivatives

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# gluttonous

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** adj
**IPA (US):** /ˈɡlʌtənəs/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈɡlʌtənəs/

## Meanings
1. given to excessive eating; greedy

## Examples
- His gluttonous appetite emptied the buffet within minutes.

## Synonyms
- greedy
- voracious
- insatiable
- ravenous
- piggish
- gormandizing

## Antonyms
- abstemious
- temperate
- moderate
- ascetic

## Derived Forms
- gluttonously
- gluttonousness

## Related Forms
- glutton
- gluttony
- glut

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: glutto
- Root: gluttire

## Etymology
From glutton + -ous, from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto ('glutton'), related to gluttire ('to swallow').

## AI Etymology
Gluttonous comes from glutton + -ous, from Old French gluton, from Latin glutto ('glutton'), related to gluttire ('to swallow'). Morphologically, the account is both compositional and suffixal: -ous marks the visible structure by which the older base becomes the modern form. In present use, it is used as an adjective meaning "given to excessive eating; greedy", so the historical material remains connected with the current sense rather than standing as bare ancestry. The wider English family includes derivatives such as gluttonously and gluttonousness and related forms such as glutton, gluttony, and glut, showing how the same historical material continues to organize neighboring vocabulary. The named historical forms include Latin glutto and Latin gluttire, keeping the history tied to concrete forms rather than a loose resemblance. Its semantic neighborhood is marked by greedy, voracious, insatiable, and ravenous on one side and contrasts such as abstemious, temperate, and moderate on the other, locating the modern specialization without adding a new origin story.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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