alcoholism [al-kuh-haw-liz-uhm, -ho-] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
alcoholism [al-kuh-haw-liz-uhm, -ho-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alcohol abuse
Synonyms: addiction, alcohol addiction, alcohol dependence, crapulence, dipsomania, drunkenness, methomania, problem drinking, substance abuse, vinosity
Main Entry: drunkenness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: inebriety
Synonyms: alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriation, insobriety, intemperance, intoxication, tipsiness
Antonyms: abstinence, soberness, sobriety, temperance
Main Entry: intemperance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: insobriety
Synonyms: alcoholism, drunkenness, immoderation
Example Sentences
  • Experts say the only way to cure alcoholism is to drink a whole lot of alcohol continuously.
  • We can't ban it before the direct link between the alcohol energy drinks and the alcoholism is found.
  • Yet these populations had names for disorders that appeared strikingly similar to schizophrenia, alcoholism and psychopathy.
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Main Entry: alcohol abuse
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: alcohol addiction
Synonyms: alcoholic abuse, alcoholism, alcoholism abuse, dipsomania, drinking, hitting the bottle, substance abuse
Main Entry: inebriation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drunkenness
Synonyms: alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriety, insobriety, intemperance, intoxication, tipsiness
Main Entry: inebriety
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drunkenness
Synonyms: alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriation, insobriety, intemperance, intoxication, tipsiness
Main Entry: insobriety
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drunkenness
Synonyms: alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriation, inebriety, intemperance, intoxication, tipsiness
Main Entry: tipsiness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: drunkenness
Synonyms: alcoholism, boozing, crapulence, dipsomania, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intemperance, intoxication
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Main Entry: intemperance
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
after, straight, Dionysian, addicted to drink, addled, besotted, bibacious, bibulous, blasted, bleezed, blind drunk, blotto, bombed, bungfu, canned, capernoited, cheeping, clean, cockeyed, crapulous, crispy, crocked, drunk, drunken, dry, dusted, ebrious, flustered, fried, fuddled, gambrinous, giddy, given to drink, groggy, high, holding, hooked, hung over, in a state of intoxication, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, intoxicated, lit up, loaded, market, muckibus, muddled, muzzy, nimtopsical, oiled, pickled, pie, pissed, pixilated, plastered, polluted, pot, potatory, potted, ripped, shitfaced, shnockered, sick, skunk drunk, sloshed, smashed, sober, sotted, sottish, soused, sozzled, spaced, stale, stinking, stinko, stoned, strung, tanked, temulent, temulentive, the worse for liquor, tiddly, tight, tipsy, toping, under the influence, unintoxicated, using, wasted, wet, wiped, woozy, wrecked, zoned out, zonked, zonked out
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