| Main Entry: | drunkenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inebriety |
Synonyms: |
alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriation, insobriety, intemperance, intoxication, tipsiness |
Antonyms: |
abstinence, soberness, sobriety, temperance |
| Concept: | Drunkenness. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
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-nouns
drunkenness; intemperance; drinking v.; inebriety, inebriation; ebriety, ebriosity; insobriety; intoxication; temulency, bibacity, winebibbing; comtation, potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.]., oinomania, dipsomania; delirium tremens; alcohol, alcoholism; mania a potu., drink; alcoholic drinks; blue ruin, grog, port wine; punch, punch bowl; cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl; drop, drop too much; dram; beer (beverage); aguardiente; apple brandy, applejack; brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]; chain lightning, champagne, cocktail; gin, ginsling; martini; highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres., drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, winebibber; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker, sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal, Bacchante; devotee to Bacchus; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.
-verbs
get drunk, be drunk; see double; take a drop too much, take a glass too much; drink; tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, lush, bib, swig, carouse; sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus; take to drinking; drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish; have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you., liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off (drink up); go to the alehouse, go to the public house., make one drunk; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
-adjectives
drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxicationn.; temulent, temulentive; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk., flush, flushed., inter pocula; in liquor, the worse for liquor; having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind; under the table., drunk as a lord, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow., drunken, bibacious, sottish; given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle; toping.
-phrases
nunc est bibendum; "Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]; "drink down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]; "O that men should put an enemy in their
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Antonyms: |
sobriety |
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| Main Entry: | alcoholism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | alcohol abuse |
Synonyms: |
addiction, alcohol addiction, alcohol dependence, crapulence, dipsomania, drunkenness, methomania, problem drinking, substance abuse, vinosity |
| Main Entry: | dissipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wantonness |
Synonyms: |
abandonment, debauchery, dissoluteness, dissolution, drunkenness, evil, excess, extravagance, free-living, high-living, indulgence, intemperance, lavishness, life in the fast lane, prodigality, profligacy, self-gratification, squandering, to hell in handbasket, waste |
Antonyms: |
unselfishness, virtue |
| Main Entry: | hangover |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | result of heavy drinking |
Synonyms: |
DTs, aftereffect, big head, delirium tremens, drunkenness, headache, morning after, shakes, under the weather, willies, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
sobriety |
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
Synonyms: |
bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
Antonyms: |
chastity, cleanness, decency, modesty, purity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | intemperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insobriety |
Synonyms: |
alcoholism, drunkenness, immoderation |
| Main Entry: | intoxication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inebriation |
Synonyms: |
drunkenness, elation, euphoria, excitement, exhilaration, intemperance |
| Main Entry: | jag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an intoxicated condition |
Synonyms: |
buzz*, drunkenness, glow*, inebriety, intoxication |
| Main Entry: | intemperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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after, straight, Dionysian, addicted to drink, addled, besotted, bibacious, bibulous, blasted, bleezed, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, bungfu, canned, capernoited, cheeping, clean, cockeyed, crapulous, crispy, crocked, drunk, drunken, dry, dusted, ebrious, flustered, fried, fuddled, gambrinous, giddy, given to drink, groggy, high, holding, hooked, hung over, in a state of intoxication, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, lit up, loaded, market, muckibus, muddled, muzzy, nimtopsical, oiled, pickled, pie, pissed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, pot, potatory, potted, ripped, shitfaced, shnockered, sick, skunk drunk, sloshed, smashed, sober, sotted, sottish, soused, sozzled, spaced, stale, stinking, stinko, stoned, strung, tanked, temulent, temulentive, the worse for liquor, tiddly, tight, tipsy, toping, under the influence, unintoxicated, using, wasted, wet, wiped, woozy, wrecked, zoned out, zonked, zonked out
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