| Main Entry: | intemperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insobriety |
Synonyms: |
alcoholism, drunkenness, immoderation |
| Main Entry: | intemperance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
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
|
| Concept: | Intemperance. |
| Category: | 4. Moral practice |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living., indulgence; high living, inabstinence, self-indulgence; voluptuousness; epicurism, epicureanism; sybaritism; drug habit., dissipation; licentiousness; debauchery; crapulence., revels, revelry; debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies; excess, too much., Circean cup; bhang, hashish, opium, cocaine.
-verbs
be intemperate; indulge, exceed; live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land; give a loose to indulgence; wallow in voluptuousness; plunge into dissipation., revel; rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats; slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst; swill; pamper.
-adjectives
intemperate, inabstinent; sensual, self-indulgent; voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched., brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish., Paphian, Epicurean, Sybaritical; bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury; indulged, pampered; full-fed, high-fed.
-phrases
"being full of supper and distempering draughts" [Othello].
|
Antonyms: |
temperance |
| Browse Concept Index » | |
| Main Entry: | debauchery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | immoral self-indulgence |
Synonyms: |
bender, binge, blowout, burning candle at both ends, bust, carousal, depravity, dissipation, dissoluteness, drunk*, excess, fast living, fornication, gluttony, incontinence, indulgence, intemperance, intimacy, la dolce vita, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, license, licentiousness, life in fast lane, lust, orgy, overindulgence, revel, revelry, seduction, sensuality, sybaritism, tear* |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, giving, mercifulness, unselfishness |
| Main Entry: | decadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perversion; deterioration of morality |
Synonyms: |
corruption, debasement, decay, declension, decline, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, devolution, dissipation, dissolution, downfall, downgrade, evil, excess, fall, gluttony, incontinence, intemperance, lasciviousness, lechery, lewdness, licentiousness, regression, sensuality, sybaritism |
Antonyms: |
humility, morality |
| 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: | excess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overindulgence in personal desires |
Synonyms: |
debauchery, dissipation, dissoluteness, exorbitance, extravagance, extreme, extremity, immoderacy, immoderation, indulgence, inordinateness, intemperance, overdoing, prodigality, saturnalia, self-indulgence, unrestraint |
Antonyms: |
deprivation, economy, frugality, moderation, privation |
| Main Entry: | greed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming desire for more |
Synonyms: |
acquisitiveness, avarice, avidity, covetousness, craving, cupidity, eagerness, edacity, esurience, excess, gluttony, gormandizing, graspingness, hunger, indulgence, insatiableness, intemperance, longing, piggishness, rapacity, ravenousness, selfishness, swinishness, the gimmies, voracity |
Antonyms: |
benevolence, generosity |
| Main Entry: | indulgence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luxury; gratification |
Synonyms: |
allowance, appeasement, attention, babying, coddling, courtesy, endurance, excess, extravagance, favor, favoring, fondling, fondness, forbearance, fulfillment, goodwill, gratifying, hedonism, immoderation, intemperance, intemperateness, kindness, kowtowing, lenience, leniency, pampering, partiality, patience, permissiveness, petting, placating, pleasing, privilege, profligacy, profligateness, satiation, satisfaction, service, spoiling, toadying, tolerance, toleration, treating, understanding |
Antonyms: |
abstention, care, moderation, temperance |
| Main Entry: | luxury |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great pleasure, indulgence |
Synonyms: |
affluence, bliss, comfort, delight, enjoyment, exorbitance, extravagance, frill, gratification, hedonism, high living, immoderation, intemperance, leisure, luxuriousness, opulence, rarity, richness, satisfaction, splendor, sumptuousness, treat, well-being |
Antonyms: |
austerity, economy, frugality |