Drunkenness

Synonyms for drunkenness
noun inebriety

intoxication
tipsiness
crapulence

insobriety
inebriation
intemperance

alcoholism
boozing
dipsomania

Antonyms for drunkenness

abstinence
soberness

sobriety
temperance

Usage Notes

See drunk.
Concept Thesaurus for word drunkenness
4. Moral practice
Synonyms – noun

drunkenness
inebriation
intoxication
comtation
bacchanalia
dipsomania
mania a potu.
grog
cup
drop too much
apple brandy
chain lightning
ginsling
rum
sling [U.S.]
xeres.
tippler
gin drinker
tun
reveler
Bacchal
guzzler

intemperance
ebriety
temulency
potation
libations
delirium tremens
drink
port wine
rosy wine
dram
applejack
champagne
martini
rye
uisquebaugh
drunkard
bibber
dram drinker
love pot
carouser
Bacchante
tavern haunter.

drinking v.
ebriosity
bibacity
deep potations
bender [U.S.].
alcohol
alcoholic drinks
punch
flowing bowl
beer (beverage)
brandy
cocktail
highball [U.S.]
schnapps [U.S.]
usquebaugh
sot
winebibber
soaker
toss pot
Bacchanal
devotee to Bacchus

inebriety
insobriety
winebibbing
bacchanals
oinomania
alcoholism
blue ruin
punch bowl
drop
aguardiente
brandy smash [U.S.]
gin
peg
sherry
whisky
toper
hard drinker
sponge
thirsty soul
Bacchanalian
bum [U.S.]

Synonyms – verbs

get drunk
take a glass too much
booze
soak
have a jag on
carouse
drink deep
splice the main brace
wet one’s whistle
toss off (drink up)
inebriate
get into one’s head.

be drunk
drink
bouse
sot
lush
sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus
drink like a fish
take a hair of the dog that bit you.
take a whet
go to the alehouse
fuddle

see double
tipple
guzzle
bum [U.S.]
bib
take to drinking
have one’s swill
liquor
crack a bottle
go to the public house.
befuddle

take a drop too much
tope
swill
besot
swig
drink hard
drain the cup
liquor up
pass the bottle
make one drunk
fuzzle

Synonyms – adjectives

drunk
inebriate
temulent
cut
merry
groggy
glorious
overtaken
primed
lushy
obfuscated
flush
the worse for liquor
three sheets to the wind
drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a wheelbarrow.
given to drink

tipsy
inebriated
temulentive
boozy
elevated
beery
potulent
whittled
corned
nappy
maudlin
flushed.
having had a drop too much
under the table.
drunk as Chloe
drunken
addicted to drink

intoxicated
in one’s cups
fuddled
fou
flustered
top-heavy
squiffy
screwed
raddled
muddled
crapulous
inter pocula
half seas over
drunk as a lord
drunk as an owl
bibacious
addicted to the bottle

inebrious
in a state of intoxicationn.
mellow
fresh
disguised
potvaliant
overcome
tight
sewed up
muzzy
dead drunk.
in liquor
three sheets in the wind
drunk as a piper
drunk as David’s sow
sottish
toping.

Synonyms – 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
Antonyms

sobriety

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