Gluttonous vs Ravenous - What's the difference?
gluttonous | ravenous |
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. Very hungry.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
As adjectives the difference between gluttonous and ravenous
is that gluttonous is given to excessive eating; prone to overeating while ravenous is very hungry.gluttonous
English
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.
ravenous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}
- Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!