GLUTTON Synonyms: 16 Similar and Opposite Words

glutton

noun

ˈglə-tᵊn

Definition of glutton

as in pig

one who eats greedily or too much he's such a glutton that he ate the whole cake

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Recent Examples of glutton Not to mention the obese little gluttons. — Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025 The Suns may thwart a fast break, but end up with a tiny guard trying to keep a glass glutton off the boards. — Fred Katz, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025 The bad guys are rich gluttons, the good guys are the struggling poor. — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 26 Dec. 2024 In the early 1980s, in the 1990s, returning like a malarial fever, the enemy was the Medfly, the Mediterranean fruit fly — pest, parasite, glutton for our golden harvests, despoiler of sunny citrus and rosy peaches, murderer of guacamole avocados. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for glutton

Recent Examples of Synonyms for glutton

Noun

Speaking of the players, the two Irish twin sisters emerged as standouts at the end of the season with their hilarious telepathy pig bit in episode 9 and their touching performance at Mae’s memorial in the finale.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 7 Oct. 2026
But she was treated with heparin, an anticoagulant derived from intestinal tissue of pigs.

— Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of pig

Noun

Fishmeal helped fuel the post-World War II expansion of industrial chicken and hog farming, particularly in Europe and the United States.

— Ian Urbina, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Bubba’s had been closed for an extended period while Miller recovered from spinal fusion surgery that left him unable to load hogs onto a smoker.

— Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026