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Synonyms for drunkenness
drunk·en·ness

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drunkennessnoun

    Synonyms:
    inebriation

  2. drunkennessnoun

    A state of being drunk

    Synonyms:
    inebriation

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobrietynoun

    a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol

    Synonyms:
    drinking, inebriety, alcohol addiction, inebriation, poisoning, intoxication, drink, insobriety, alcoholism, tipsiness, boozing, crapulence, toxic condition

    Antonyms:
    soberness, sobriety

  2. alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkennessnoun

    habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms

    Synonyms:
    drinking, inebriety, alcohol addiction, dipsomania, inebriation, potomania, intoxication, drink, insobriety, alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, tipsiness

    Antonyms:
    soberness, sobriety

  3. drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulencenoun

    the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

    "drink was his downfall"

    Synonyms:
    alcohol addiction, inebriation, swallow, tipsiness, potable, imbibing, intoxication, crapulence, insobriety, alcoholism, drinkable, drink, imbibition, drinking, inebriety, deglutition, beverage, boozing

    Antonyms:
    soberness, sobriety

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drunkennessnoun

    Synonyms:
    intoxication, inebriety, ebriety

  2. drunkennessnoun

    Synonyms:
    sottishness

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. drunkennessnoun

    Synonyms:
    intoxication, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, debauch, excitement, frenzy, inflammation

    Antonyms:
    sobriety, temperance, abstinence

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "drunkenness":

    intoxication, exhilaration, drunk, lust

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#3958drinking
#4133excess
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#7062beverage
#11883swallow
#13567lust
#13849poisoning
#17194alcoholism
#17531greed
#29045potable
#33642intoxication
#42284sensuality
#54055drunkenness
#70304gluttony
#75313exhilaration
#81653drinkable
#84913revelry
#102184boozing
#112127intemperance
#119326reveling
#164277imbibing
#180433wantonness
#200260deglutition
#210707inebriation
#232790imbibition

How to use drunkenness in a sentence?

  1. Bertrand Russell:

    Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  2. Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

    Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  3. Robert South:

    Passion is the drunkenness of the mind.

  4. William Shakespeare:

    I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.

  5. Bradley Boekeloo:

    The study does suggest that parent involvement in their kids ’ free time through monitoring of unstructured activity is very important to preventing youth drunkenness and smoking.


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