Thesaurus:drunkenness

Thesaurus

drunkenness

English

Noun

Sense: state of being drunk

Synonyms

• alecy (obsolete)
• brick in one's hat (US dialect, obsolete, idiomatic)
• drunkenness
• German vice (archaic)
• pissedness
• staggers and jags

Antonyms

• soberness
• sobriety

Hypernyms

All are synonymous when the drug is not otherwise specified

• buzz
• inebriacy (rare, dated)
• inebriation
• inebriety
• inebrity
• insobriety
• intoxication

Coordinate terms

• alcohol poisoning (technically hypernymous but usually construed as coordinate)

See also

• Thesaurus:alcoholic
• Thesaurus:drunk
• Thesaurus:drunkard
• Thesaurus:borrachera (Spanish)

Further reading

• “959. drunkenness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “drunkenness” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.