Word Meanings - BELLY-GOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
Related words: (words related to BELLY-GOD)
- WHOSESOEVER
The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever. - EPICURE
1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. Bacon. 2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table. Syn. -- Voluptuary; sensualist. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GLUTTONY
Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - EPICURELY
Luxuriously. Nash. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - PLEASURER
A pleasure seeker. Dickens. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GRATIFY
1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains - PLEASURELESS
Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot. - GLUTTONOUS
Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n. - GREAT-GRANDCHILD
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATNESS
1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon. - EPICUREANISM
Attachment to the doctrines of Epicurus; the principles or belief of Epicurus. - GREAT
great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number; - PLEASURE
1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain, - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.