porcine

1. 1.

   relating to or suggesting swine

   “comparison between human and porcine pleasures”
2. 2.

   repellently fat

   “a bald porcine old man”

   Synonymsgross

   Similarfat
3. 3.

   resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy

   “piggish table manners”

   “the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father”

   “swinish slavering over food”

   Synonymshoggishpiggishpiggyswinish

   Similargluttonous

Other forms of porcine

comparative

porciner·

superlative

porcinest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about porcine

What does porcine mean?

porcine means "relating to or suggesting swine". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in porcine?

porcine has 2 syllables: por-cine. The stress falls on "por".

What is another word for porcine?

Close synonyms include gross, hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is porcine a common word?

porcine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.