different between gluttonous vs obese

English

Etymology

From glutton +? -ous.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??l?t(?)n?s/
• Hyphenation: glut?ton?ous

Adjective

gluttonous (comparative more gluttonous, superlative most gluttonous)

1. Given to excessive eating; prone to overeating.
   • 1611 — KJV, Matthew 11:19

     Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners.

2. Greedy.
   • 1607 — William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens iii 4

     Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts,
     And take down the interest into their gluttonous maws.

   • 1914, Robert W. Service, The Call:

     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, H.P. Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth:

     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.

Related terms

• glutton
• gluttonously
• gluttony

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin ob?sus, derived from obed? (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + ed? (“I eat”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o??bis/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???bi?s/, /??bi?s/

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)

1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• fat

Anagrams

• Boese

Interlingua

Adjective

obese (not comparable)

1. obese

Related terms

• obesitate

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ze

Adjective

obese

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

Latin

Participle

ob?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ob?sus