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Definition of Inebriated
1. Adjective. Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol). "Helplessly inebriated"
Similar to: Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchic, Carousing, Orgiastic, Beery, Besotted, Blind Drunk, Blotto, Cockeyed, Crocked, Fuddled, Loaded, Pie-eyed, Pissed, Pixilated, Plastered, Slopped, Sloshed, Smashed, Soaked, Soused, Sozzled, Squiffy, Stiff, Tight, Wet, Potty, Tiddly, Tipsy, Bibulous, Boozy, Drunken, Sottish, Doped, Drugged, Narcotised, Narcotized, Half-seas-over, High, Mellow, Hopped-up, Stoned
Derivative terms: Drunk, Drunk
Antonyms: Sober
Definition of Inebriated
1. Adjective. Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner. ¹
2. Verb. (past of inebriate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inebriated
1. inebriate [v] - See also: inebriate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inebriated
Literary usage of Inebriated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"feast, he wag returning to his house inebriated, and accompanied by some of his
debauched companions, who, for the sake of merriment, had been admitted to ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1890)
"inebriated or drunk " by the drinking of intoxicating spirituous liquors," being
understood, unless the word is otherwise qualified.2 INTOXICATING ..."
3. A Letter to the Right Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of London, in by Edward Bouverie Pusey, Charles James Blomfield (1851)
"The other word "inebriated," is one which I learned (I may again say) before I
was acquainted with any Roman writer, in the works to whose study I was ..."
4. Miscellaneous Anecdotes Illustrative of the Manners and History of Europe by James Peller Malcolm (1811)
"j> A HINT TO THOSE WHO ARE SOMETIMES inebriated. The author of " The True Protestant
Domestic Intelligence" ..."
5. Compendium of the Art of Always Rejoicing by Alfonsus Antonius de Sarasa, Thomas Meyrick (1872)
"... for, inebriated with delights, they might easily turn aside from the path of
virtue, and fall by degrees into sin; as, on the other hand, ..."
6. Modern Hagiology: An Examination of the Nature and Tendency of Some by John Clarke Crosthwaite, John Henry Newman, Edward Bouverie Pusey, Frederick Oakeley (1846)
"PUSEY'S MEDITATION ON inebriated LOVE. THE last of the passages quoted in the
preceding chapter was broken off before its termination. ..."
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