Avaricious vs Gluttonous - What's the difference?
avaricious | gluttonous |
Actuated]] by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of [[accumulate, accumulating property.
* Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854)
And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly ... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly" content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: Look your last on your dearest ones,
Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
Swift they go to the ravenous guns,
The gluttonous guns of War. * 1929 — , *: One day the mail-man found no village there,
Nor were its folk or houses seen again;
People came out from Aylesbury to stare -
Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain
That he was mad for saying he had spied
The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.
As adjectives the difference between avaricious and gluttonous
is that avaricious is actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property while gluttonous is given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.avaricious
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Alternative forms
* avaritious (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious , rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* avariciously * avariciousnessReferences
*gluttonous
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Quotations
{{timeline, 1600s=1607 1611, 1800s=1854 1891, 1900s=1914 1929}} * 1607 — (William Shakespeare), iii 4 *: Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws. * 1611 — (w), 11:19 *: Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), *: The voracious caterpillar when transformed into a butterfly ... and the gluttonous maggot when become a fly" content themselves with a drop or two of honey or some other sweet liquid. * 1891 — (Walt Whitman), Book xvii *: Do the feasters gluttonous feast? * 1914 — , *: Look your last on your dearest ones,
Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons:
Swift they go to the ravenous guns,
The gluttonous guns of War. * 1929 — , *: One day the mail-man found no village there,
Nor were its folk or houses seen again;
People came out from Aylesbury to stare -
Yet they all told the mail-man it was plain
That he was mad for saying he had spied
The great hill's gluttonous eyes, and jaws stretched wide.