Antonyms of adj edacious

1 sense of edacious

Sense 1
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish -- (devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks")

INDIRECT (VIA gluttonous) -> abstemious -- (sparing in consumption of especially food and drink; "the pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious"- John Galsworthy)

Similarity of adj edacious

1 sense of edacious

Sense 1
edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish -- (devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks")
       => gluttonous (vs. abstemious) -- (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure")

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