Gluttonous vs Sated - What's the difference?
gluttonous | sated |
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. In a state of complete and thorough satisfaction.
quelled of thirst or hunger.
(sate)
As adjectives the difference between gluttonous and sated
is that gluttonous is given to excessive eating; prone to overeating while sated is in a state of complete and thorough satisfaction.As a verb sated is
(sate).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.