Drunkenness Synonyms and Antonyms

The condition of being intoxicated with alcoholic liquor
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. inebriation
  2. inebriety
  3. intoxication
  4. insobriety
  5. tipsiness
  6. crapulence
  7. alcoholism
  8. intemperance
  9. dipsomania
  10. heavy drinking
  11. boozing
  12. guzzling
  13. pickle
  14. glow
  15. mellowness
  16. jag
  17. head full of bees
  18. alcohol addiction
  19. besottedness
Antonyms:
  1. abstinence
  2. sobriety
  3. soberness
  4. temperance
The act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. drink
  2. drinking
  3. boozing
  4. crapulence

Words Related to Drunkenness

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Drunkenness Sentence Examples

  • The drunkenness produced by kava is of a melancholy, silent and drowsy character.

  • In the same year he wrote a very popular treatise against drunkenness.

  • Though aloe-beer or " pulque " was allowed for feasts and to invalids in moderation, and old people over seventy seem to be represented in one of the picture-writings as having liberty of drunkenness, young men found drunk were clubbed to death and young women stoned.

  • Maize, beans and bananas, varied occasionally with dried meat and fresh pork, form their staple diet; drunkenness is common on pay-days and festivals, when large quantities of a fiery brandy called chicha are consumed.

  • Grounds for divorce are impotence of either party at time of marriage, previous marriage, adultery, wilful desertion for two years, habitual drunkenness, attempt on life, extreme and repeated cruelty, and conviction of felony or other infamous crime.

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