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Definition: Gluttonous |
GluttonousAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "gluttonous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Antonym: abstemious (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Gluttony | Adjective: gluttonous, greedy; gormandizing;Verb: edacious, omnivorous, crapulent, swinish. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gluttonous |
| English words defined with "gluttonous": Gluttonish, gluttonously, Gormand ♦ hoggish ♦ Ingluvious ♦ overgreedy ♦ piggish, piggy, porcine ♦ swinish ♦ too-greedy ♦ Weasy. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "gluttonous": Ingluvious. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many people think that obese individuals are gluttonous, lazy, or both, even though this is not true. As a result, obese people often face prejudice or discrimination in the job market, at school, and in social situations. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Gluttonous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gluttonous" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "gluttonous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | grykës (greedy, guttural, voracious), makut (Edacious, esurient, grasping, greedy, mingy, miser, open mouthed, pecker, piggish, rapacious, voracious), llupës (glutton, gourmand, greedy, guttler, guzzler, voracious), lakmues (avid, covetous, desirous, indicator), i pangopur (insatiable, insatiate, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, sateless, voracious). (various references) | |
Arabic | نهم (avid, cormorant, gluttony, gourmand, insatiable, insatiate, lickerish, open mouthed, pig, piggy, ravenous, straggling, voracious, voracity), النفس الفاتحه, الشره (glutton, insatiability), شره (avid, avidity, cormorant, gourmand, greed, greedy, gross, hoggish, lickerish, pig, piggish, predatory, solicitous, voracious, voracity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | лепкав (adherent, adhesive, clammy, clayey, gluey, glutinous, gooey, gummy, limy, smeary, sticky, stiff, stringy, tacky, tenacious, treacly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 饞 (food, greedy, to cook), 饕 , 餮 , 贪馋. (various references) | |
Czech | nenasytný (greedy, insatiable, insatiate, sateless, voracious), hltavý (greedy, omnivorous, ravenous, voracious, wolfish), žravý (omnivorous, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Finnish | ahnas (greedy, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
French | gourmand (glutton), goulu, glouton (glutton). (various references) | |
German | gefräßig (voracious, gluttonously, ravening, ravenously). (various references) | |
Greek | λαίμαργοσ (glutton, greedy, lickerish, ravenous), λαίμαργος (greedy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | זוללני (ravenous, voracious), רעבתני (avid, greedy, hungry, ravenous, voracious), רעב (famine, famished, greedy, hunger, hungry, ravenous, scarcity, starvation, yearning), סבאני. (various references) | |
Hungarian | torkos, nagybélű, falánk (esurient, piggy, ravening, ravenous). (various references) | |
Indonesian | geragas, serakah (avaricious), lahap (ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Italian | goloso (gourmand, greedy), ghiotto (delicious, greedy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 意地汚ない (greedy). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | いじきたない (greedy). (various references) | |
Manx | jioogh (avid, greedy, insatiable, voracious). (various references) | |
Norwegian | grådig (greedy). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | uttonousglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | guloso (gourmand, greedy, lickerish, sweet tooth), glutão (edacious, glutton, gobbler, lickerish), voraz (voracious), comilão (devourer, glutton, trencherman). (various references) | |
Romanian | gãman (glutton, greedy), mâncãcios (glutton), lacom (avid, covetous, craving, devouringly, edacious, esurient, glutton, greedy, hoggish, hungry, insatiable, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wishful, wolfish). (various references) | |
Russian | прожорливый (voracious). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | proždrljiv (edacious, glutton, lupine, ravenous, voracious), alav (voracious). (various references) | |
Spanish | glotón (glutton, gourmand). (various references) | |
Swedish | glupsk (voracious, glutenous, ravenous). (various references) | |
Thai | ตะกละ (gormandize). (various references) | |
Turkish | pisboğaz (gourmand, greedy, piggish, piglike, ravenous), obur (cormorant, edacious, esurient, glutton, gormandizer, gourmand, greedy, guzzler, hog, lickerish, open mouthed, piggish, ravenous, voracious). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | обжерливий, ненажерливий (edacious, gourmand, greedy, ravenous, voracious, wide-mouthed). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tham ăn (greedy, voracious), phàm ăn (rapacious), háu ăn. (various references) | |
Welsh | glwth (couch, glutton), bolrwth (greedy). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vorax. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Elhluqen o uioV tou anqrwpou esqiwn kai pinwn kai legete idou anqrwpoV fagoV kai oinopothV telwnwn filoV kai amartwlwn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Venit Filius hominis manducans et bibens et dicitis ecce homo devorator et bibens vinum amicus publicanorum et peccatorum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Mannes sunu com. etende and drincende. and ge cweþað þes man is swelgend and win dringcende: manfullra and synfulra freond; |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Mannus sone cam etynge and drynkynge, and ye seien, Lo! a man a deuourer, and drynkynge wyne, a frend of pupplicans and of synful men. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The sonne of man is come and eateth and drinketh and ye saye: beholde a man which is a glotton and a drinker of wyne a frende of publicans and synners. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold, a gluttonous man, and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The Son of man came feasting, and you say, Here is a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 7, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Ang Anak sa Tawo mianhi nga nagakaon ug nagainom; ug kamo nagaingon, `Tan-awa kana siya, usa ka tawong ulitan, palainom ug bino, ug higala sa mga maniningil sa buhis ug sa mga makasasala!` |
| Croatian | Došao je Sin Èovjeèji koji jede i pije, a govorite: 'Evo izjelice i vinopije, prijatelja carinika i grešnika!' |
| Danish | Menneskesønnen kom, som spiser og drikker, og I sige: Se, en Frådser og en Vindranker, Tolderes og Synderes Ven! |
| Dutch | De Zoon des mensen is gekomen, etende en drinkende, en gij zegt: Ziet daar, een Mens, Die een vraat en wijnzuiper is, een Vriend van tollenaren en zondaren. |
| Finnish | Ihmisen Poika on tullut, syö ja juo, ja te sanotte: `Katso syömäriä ja viininjuojaa, publikaanien ja syntisten ystävää!` |
| French | Le Fils de l`homme est venu, mangeant et buvant, et vous dites: C`est un mangeur et un buveur, un ami des publicains et des gens de mauvaise vie. |
| German | Des Menschen Sohn ist gekommen, ißt und trinkt; so sagt ihr: Siehe, der Mensch ist ein Fresser und Weinsäufer, der Zöllner und Sünder Freund! |
| Haitian Creole | Mwen menm, Moun Bondye voye nan lachè a, mwen vini, mwen manje, mwen bwè, nou di: Gade yon nonm! Se manje ak bwè ase l' konnen; se zanmi pèseptè kontribisyon ak moun k'ap fè sa ki mal li ye. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Anak Manusia datang--Ia makan dan minum--lalu kalian berkata, 'Lihat orang itu! Rakus, pemabuk, kawan penagih pajak dan kawan orang berdosa.' |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka Anak manusia datang makan serta minum, maka katamu: Tengoklah seorang gelojoh dan peminum anggur sahabat orang pemungut cukai dan orang berdosa. |
| Italian | E' venuto il Figlio dell'uomo che mangia e beve, e voi dite: Ecco un mangione e un beone, amico dei pubblicani e dei peccatori. |
| Manx Gaelic | Ta'n Mac dooinney er jeet gee as giu; as ta shiu gra, Cur-my-ner dooinney jollyssagh, as iuder-feeyney, carrey dy phublicanee as dy pheccee. |
| Maori | I haere mai te Tama a te tangata me te kai, me te inu; a ka mea koutou, Na, he tangata kakai, he tangata inu waina, he hoa no nga pupirikana, no nga tangata hara! |
| Norwegian | Menneskesønnen er kommet; han eter og drikker, og I sier: Se, for en storeter og vindrikker, tolderes og synderes venn! |
| Portuguese | veio o Filho do homem, comendo e bebendo, e dizeis: Eis aí um comilão e bebedor de vinho, amigo de publicanos e pecadores. |
| Rumanian | A venit Fiul omului, mkncknd wi bknd, wi ziceyi: ,Iatq un om mkncqcios wi bqutor de vin, un prieten al vamewilor wi al pqcqtowilor.` |
| Russian | рТЙЫЕМ уЩО юЕМПЧЕЮЕУЛЙК: ЕУФ Й РШЕФ; Й ЗПЧПТЙФЕ: ЧПФ ЮЕМПЧЕЛ, ЛПФПТЩК МАВЙФ ЕУФШ Й РЙФШ ЧЙОП, ДТХЗ НЩФБТСН Й ЗТЕЫОЙЛБН. |
| Shuar | Nuyá Wisha Aents Ajasan Támajai. Tura Yurumá úmakuisha "ti yurumin tura ti nampenaiti; kame Ashí yajauch shuaran tura Kuítian-juu amikrinti" Túrutrume. |
| Swahili | Akaja Mwana wa Mtu; anakula na kunywa, mkasema: `Mwangalieni mlafi huyu na mlevi; rafiki ya watoza ushuru na wenye dhambi!` |
| Swedish | Människosonen har kommit, och han både äter och dricker, och nu sägen I: 'Se, vilken frossare och vindrinkare han är, en publikaners och syndares vän!' |
| Uma | Batua-na: Yohanes Topeniu' uma nipokonoi, Aku' wo'o uma nipokonoi. Katumai-na Yohanes, mopuasa' -i pai' uma-i nginu to melanguhi. Nipoka'oja' -i, ni'uli': `Kahawia' -i-hanale!' Hiaa' katumai-ku Aku' Ana' Manusia', nginu-a, ngkoni' -a. Nipoka'oja' wo'o-a-wadi, ni'uli': `Hilo-i! Tojampa, topalangu-langu, bale-ra topesingara' paja' pai' doo-ra topojeko'!' |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gluttonous": gluttonously, gluttonousness, gluttonousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Gluttonous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: glutenous, glutionous, glutonous, gluttunous. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "gluttonous" (pronounced glu"tunus) |
| 5 | -t u n u s | chitinous, gelatinous, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, tetanus. |
| 4 | -u n u s | androgynous, asynchronous, bituminous, Deaconess, exogenous, genuineness, homogenous, indigenous, larcenous, luminous, membranous, nitrogenous, nonpoisonous, ominous, outspokenness, poisonous, polygynous, ravenous, ruinous, villainous, voluminous. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, bluntness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, farsightedness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gentleness, genus, ghastliness, goodness, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, madness, Manus, meanness, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nonbusiness, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, politeness, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, vindictiveness, vividness, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: gluttons. | |
-3 letters: glutton, outguns, outsung. | |
-4 letters: glouts, gluons, lottos, outgun, stolon. | |
-5 letters: glost, glout, gluon, gluts, goons, gouts, gusto, logos, longs, loons, loots, lotos, lotto, lotus, louts, lungs, lunts, nolos, ottos, outgo, slung, snool, snoot, snout, solon, sotol, stool, stout, stung, stunt, tolus, tongs, tonus, tools, toons, toots, touts, tungs, tutus, ungot. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-l-n-o-o-s-t-t-u-u" | |
+2 letters: gluttonously. | |
+4 letters: gluttonousness. | |
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