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gormandizing

ADJECTIVE

grabby

Synonyms

WEAK

acquisitive avaricious avid carnivorous close close-fisted covetous craving desirous devouring eager edacious esurient gluttonous gobbling grasping grudging gulping guzzling hoggish hungry impatient insati insatiable

ADJECTIVE

greedy

Synonyms

STRONGEST

eager hungry impatient rapacious selfish

WEAK

acquisitive avaricious avid carnivorous close close-fisted covetous craving desirous devouring edacious esurient gluttonous gobbling grabby grasping grudging gulping guzzling hoggish insatiable insatiate intemperate itchy miserly omnivorous parsimonious penny-pinching penurious piggish prehensile ravening ravenous stingy swinish tight tight-fisted voracious

Antonyms

WEAK

abstemious benevolent charitable extravagant generous liberal philanthropic

ADJECTIVE

hoggish

Synonyms

WEAK

ADJECTIVE

piggish

Synonyms

WEAK

acquisitive avaricious avid carnivorous close close-fisted covetous craving desirous devouring eager edacious esurient gluttonous gobbling grabby grasping grudging gulping guzzling hoggish hungry impatient insatiable insatiate intemperate itchy miserly omnivorous parsimonious pennypinching penurious prehensile rapacious ravening ravenous selfish stingy swinish tight tight-fisted voracious

NOUN

greed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

avarice excess gluttony hunger longing selfishness

STRONG

acquisitiveness avidity covetousness craving cupidity eagerness edacity esurience indulgence intemperance piggishness rapacity ravenousness voracity

WEAK

graspingness insatiableness swinishness the gimmies

Antonyms

STRONG

apathy dislike distaste indifference

WEAK

benevolence generosity

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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

The uncouth way in which they were gormandizing was terrible to witness.

From Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Weitemeyer, Thorvald

"We were only waiting for you to finish gormandizing."

From The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life by Campbell, John

Sometimes a well staged scene of gormandizing viewed from a seat in the second or third row center of a softly lighted, thick carpeted food emporium saves us the price of our own meal.

From Laugh and Live by Fairbanks, Douglas

But, amid gormandizing, Serlo entertained another plan, which he longed to have fulfilled.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

gormandizing

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