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
Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
Limit your intake of alcoholic beverages.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Desmond, her husband, had returned from the war, not physically wounded, but mentally damaged, and was becoming an alcoholic.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Food, water and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase during the festival, and restrooms will also be available.
—Molly Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 25 Sep. 2025
Limit your intake of alcoholic beverages.
—Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
This explains so much about Shannon as does Tamra’s comment about how, back then, Gene was an alcoholic, something that Shannon previously told Tamra in confidence.
—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
Desmond, her husband, had returned from the war, not physically wounded, but mentally damaged, and was becoming an alcoholic.
—Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alcoholic
Noun
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In 1984, a 20-year-old woman named Kathleen Barry was killed in a drunk-driving crash, prompting legal reforms in Massachusetts.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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Yes, that is not a way to clear herself from the problem of very publicly calling Shannon a drunk.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
12 Sep. 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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Two-thirds of American adults drink coffee each day, according to the National Coffee Association, and on average, American coffee drinkers consume about three cups of coffee per day.—
Maggie Menderski,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Sep. 2025
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Others took the vodka drinker to the McAlister Institute’s Recovery and Bridge Center, a small, unassuming building in San Diego’s Grant Hill neighborhood that offers short-term detox beds.—
Blake Nelson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.—
Danielle Teller,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Ben and Anne are written out of the will for being a drunkard and a woman, respectively.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
25 Sep. 2025
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Also very good are Orville Mendoza as the drunkard actor Selsdon, Matthew Patrick Davis as the production’s nervous jack-of-all-trades Tim and Abby Leigh Huffstetler as incompetent stage manager Poppy.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 July 2025
Adjective
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The film follows a wealthy socialite and a struggling writer who are thrown together at a debauched party.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
7 Aug. 2025
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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As a result, for decades, dopey tourists have visited the actual Stonehenge site in the U.K. humming the tune.—
Jordan Hoffman,
Entertainment Weekly,
12 Sep. 2025
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Pritzker and dopey Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have turned Chicago into Kabul during Joe Biden’s criminal withdrawal, or Saigon during the Tet Offensive.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Alcoholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/alcoholic. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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