Antonyms for surfeit
ˈsɜr fɪtsur·feit

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1. surfeitnoun

   To fill to excess.

   A surfeit of wheat is driving down the price.

   Synonyms:
   stuff, glut, superfluity, surplus, overabundance, excess, fill

2. surfeitverb

   Overindulgence in either food or drink; overeating.

   She surfeited her children on sweets.

   Synonyms:
   gluttony, stuff, overfeed, overeating, overindulgence

3. surfeitverb

   To overeat or feed to excess.

   King Henry I is said to have died of a surfeit of lampreys.

   Synonyms:
   overfeed, overeat, indulge

4. surfeitverb

   To sicken from overindulgence.

   Synonyms:
   sicken

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1. surfeit

   To satisfy is to furnish just enough to meet physical, mental, or spiritual desire. To sate or satiate is to gratify desire so fully as for a time to extinguish it. To cloy or surfeit is to gratify to the point of revulsion or disgust. Glut is a strong but somewhat coarse word applied to the utmost satisfaction of vehement appetites and passions; as, to glut a vengeful spirit with slaughter; we speak of glutting the market with a supply so excessive as to extinguish the demand. Much less than is needed to satisfy may suffice a frugal or abstemious person; less than a sufficiency may content one of a patient and submissive spirit. Compare PAY; REQUITE.

   Antonyms:
   check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, starve, stint, straiten, tantalize

   Synonyms:
   cloy, content, fill, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, suffice

   Preposition:
   Satisfy with food, with gifts, etc.; satisfy one (in the sense of make satisfaction) for labors and sacrifices; satisfy oneself by or upon inquiry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. surfeit

   Antonyms:
   scantiness, stint, defect, starvation, inanition, insufficiency

   Synonyms:
   superabundance, excess, glut, nimiety, plethora

Matched Categories

1. • Indulge
   • Overabundance

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. surfeit, excess, overabundancenoun

   the state of being more than full

   Synonyms:
   surplusage, overabundance, overmuchness, inordinateness, glut, excessiveness, oversupply, repletion, surplus, nimiety, superabundance, overindulgence, excess, overmuch

2. glut, oversupply, surfeitnoun

   the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall

   Synonyms:
   overabundance, repletion, glut, oversupply, excess

3. repletion, surfeitverb

   eating until excessively full

   Synonyms:
   repletion, overabundance, glut, oversupply, satiation, satiety, excess

4. surfeit, cloyverb

   supply or feed to surfeit

   Synonyms:
   cloy, pall

5. surfeitverb

   indulge (one's appetite) to satiety

   Synonyms:
   cloy

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1. surfeitnoun

   Synonyms:
   fullness, repletion, satiety, superabundance, plethora

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