Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Drunkenness

Nouns
  • drunkenness etc. adj.
  • intemperance
  • drinking etc. v.
  • inebriety, inebriation
  • ebriety, ebriosity
  • insobriety
  • intoxication
  • temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing
  • comtation, potation
  • deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations
  • bender [U.S.]. oinomania, dipsomania
  • delirium tremens
  • alcohol, alcoholism
  • alcoholic drinks
  • blue ruin [Slang], grog, port wine
  • punch, punch bowl
  • cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl
  • drop, drop too much
  • dram
  • beer etc. (beverage) [Eating.] Food
  • aguardiente
  • apple brandy, applejack
  • brandy, brandy smash [U.S.]
  • chain lightning [Slang], champagne, cocktail
  • gin, ginsling
  • highball [U.S.], peg, rum, rye, schnapps [U.S.], sherry, sling [U.S.], uisquebaugh [Ire.], usquebaugh [Scot.], whisky, xeres. drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush
  • hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker
  • soaker [Slang], 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 etc. adj.
  • see double
  • take a drop too much, take a glass too much
  • drink
  • tipple, tope, booze, guzzle, swill [Slang], soak [Slang], sot, bum [U.S.], besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush [Slang], bib, swig, carouse
  • sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus
  • take to drinking
  • drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish
  • have one's swill [Slang], 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 etc. (drink up) [Eating.] Food
  • go to the alehouse, go to the public house. make one drunk etc. adj.
  • inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.
Adjectives
  • drunk, tipsy
  • intoxicated
  • inebrious, inebriate, inebriated
  • in one's cups
  • in a state of intoxication etc. n.
  • temulent, temulentive
  • bombed, smashed
  • fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated
  • flustered, disguised, groggy, beery
  • top-heavy
  • potvaliant, glorious
  • potulent
  • squiffy [Slang]
  • overcome, overtaken
  • whittled, screwed [Slang], tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up [Slang], lushy [Slang], nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin
  • crapulous, dead drunk. woozy [slightly drunk], buzzed, 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 skunk, 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 etc. v..
Phrases
  • Bacchus ever fair and young" [Dryden]
  • drink down all unkindness" [Merry Wives]
  • O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains" [Othello].