| 单词 | gluttonous |
| 释义 | gluttonous (once / 12669 pages) adj When you cram your mouth with your favorite ice cream as quickly as you can, you are being gluttonous, that is, excessively greedy. Slow down. Although gluttonous usually refers to the greedy consumption of food and drink, it can also be applied to overly hearty appetites of any kind, such as a "gluttonous love of money," or even a masochistic love of pain, as in the popular phrase "glutton for punishment." Gluttonous is always used critically, and in the Christian faith especially, gluttony is considered one of the seven deadly sins. WORD FAMILYgluttonous: gluttonously+/glutton: gluttonise, gluttonize, gluttonous, gluttons/gluttonize: gluttonized USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s not too noisy; not too precious; not too far; not too healthy; not too gluttonous. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) I truly hope this is the political straw that breaks the gluttonous political classes back. New York Times(Oct 25, 2016) At the end of the opera, his character collapses into gluttonous silence. New York Times(Oct 05, 2016) adj 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 Syn|Ant crapulous given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking crapulent, crapuloussuffering from excessive eating or drinking edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfishdevouring or craving food in great quantities greedywanting to eat or drink more than one can reasonably consume hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinishresembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy overgreedy, too-greedyexcessively gluttonous indulgentcharacterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone abstemious sparing in consumption of especially food and drink abstentious, abstinentself-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartanpracticing great self-denial nonindulgent, strictcharacterized by strictness, severity, or restraint |
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