as in drunk
a person who makes a habit of getting drunk
one can be a social drinker without turning into an alcoholic
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Recent Examples of alcoholic
Kristen Mascia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2025
Decades later Anna Lyda, an alcoholic, was drunk in bed when a cigarette ignited the mattress and burned her to death.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Drinking around the world at EPCOT is an unofficial activity where guests typically consume one alcoholic beverage from each of the 11 represented countries.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Although children of alcoholics are four times as likely as others to become alcoholics, half of them won’t have any issues.
—Kristen Mascia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2025
Decades later Anna Lyda, an alcoholic, was drunk in bed when a cigarette ignited the mattress and burned her to death.
—Tom Gliatto, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
The alcoholic beverage comes with Jameson Irish whiskey, melon liqueur, blue Curaçao, premium lemon sour and lemon-lime soda with a gold sugar rim.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 16 Mar. 2025
Drinking around the world at EPCOT is an unofficial activity where guests typically consume one alcoholic beverage from each of the 11 represented countries.
—Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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Then, the president’s trainwreck brother, Tripp Morgan (Jason Lee), wakes up in room 301 next to Wynter’s corpse after passing out drunk.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
22 Mar. 2025
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Marijuana, which went mainstream decades ago, is hardly worth mentioning anymore; stoners are merely later-generation drunks in the book of comical inebriation.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
5 Feb. 2022
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But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?—
Philip Delves Broughton,
WSJ,
16 Nov. 2018
Noun
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Younger generations are opting for healthier choices and drinking less alcohol, and inflation has meant less disposable income among wine drinkers.—
Natasha Chen,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
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Yet the news has put a spotlight on American wines, a category long misunderstood by funk-forward natural-wine drinkers like me.—
Jessie Heyman,
Vogue,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Someone who knows someone who’s terribly dissolute, and knows it, and is witty and verbal enough to talk about it, is just a ball to write.—
Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
15 Mar. 2025
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The Human Fear is their fantastic tribute to misspent youth and an even more dissolute adulthood.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
11 Jan. 2025
Noun
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And then there was the one about him as a bad steward of money raised by the powerful Koch network, a sexist bully, and a drunkard on the job who got canned.—
Philip Elliott,
TIME,
4 Dec. 2024
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First, there was the chest-down, sort of squaring-up motion that drunkards do to bouncers, to be followed by a strike which could not even be conceived of in drunken stupors.—
Simon Johnson,
The Athletic,
30 June 2024
Adjective
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Doctors deal each day with tales of the worried, sullen, skeptical, dissipated, desperate.—
Michael Stein,
BostonGlobe.com,
4 Nov. 2022
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White’s dissipated dark side was no secret to his friends.—
Nancy Bilyeau,
Town & Country,
1 Feb. 2022
Adjective
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Not the concept of being dopey, mind you, but the actual character.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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This shy, dopey, lovesick kid should not be responsible for a firearm.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
16 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Researchers have recently taken a closer look at the role of the immune system in provoking those crapulous mornings.—
Jesse Hawley,
Discover Magazine,
17 Mar. 2021
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The memory ends with the image of my friend squatting, crapulous, and dumping her purse on the sidewalk.—
Justin Torres,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2021
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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