BEERY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

beery

adjective

Definition of beery

as in boozy

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Recent Examples of beery Despite the beery bonhomie and singalong-friendly simplicity of their tunes, the Twisted Teens are grappling with an increasingly complex tangle of contradictions and tensions. — Stuart Berman, Pitchfork, 5 Nov. 2026 Around five, the sun broke through the clouds, a beery yellow light that made the leaves glint like glass. — Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 In 2023, Thomas made beery history by earning the title of Master Cicerone from the Cicerone Certification Program. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025 In a beery bromance Instagram video posted on Monday (May 15), Combs taught Sheeran how to shotgun a beer. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2023 Something about the smell of beery body odours attracts mosquitoes. — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2010

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Adjective

This boozy, four-layer cake has dressy holiday dinner party written all over it.

— Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2026
Rather than accept his acclaim, a boozy Lee gets on stage and immediately tears into the crowd for being sellouts.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of boozy

Adjective

In it, the man was bleeding from his temple, after what the caller alleged was a drunken fight.

— Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 5 Nov. 2026
But earlier this year Ryanair boss, Michael O’Leary, told The Times the airline was having to divert almost one aircraft a day because of drunken and aggressive behaviour by passengers, and called for morning drinking at airports to be banned.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 3 Nov. 2026

Definition of drunken

Adjective

Except Moe is nice, caring, and talented, while Matt is arrogant, unpleasant, and, at the beginning of the episode, belligerently drunk.

— Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2026
Two Northfield, Minnesota, police officers were injured while arresting a woman suspected of driving drunk after a series of hit-and-run crashes that damaged three vehicles and two homes Monday evening, police said.

— CBS News, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of drunk

Adjective

Wide-eyed children and tipsy fathers are spellbound by the playacting queens, unbearably luminous in their regalia.

— Alessandra Schade, Vanity Fair, 28 Oct. 2026
Nithya Raman was working the beer taps, refilling the glasses of tipsy patrons during a campaign stop at Tom Bergin’s Irish pub in the Fairfax District.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of tipsy

Adjective

There’s a meta joy to his inebriated Shakespeare riff from the top of a cop car in the premiere.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2026
The series originated from a 2007 conversation, in which an inebriated Jake Johnson told Waters about R&B singer Otis Redding’s 1967 death in a plane crash.

— Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of inebriated

Adjective

McGuane had remunerative dalliances with ’70s Hollywood, selling screenplays and hobnobbing with the inebriate tranche of the A-list.

— Ryan Chapman, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026
Or simply to help other individuals in dire straits — like the widow (Whitney Morgan Cox) and daughter (Veda Cienfuegos) of that inebriate driver, their current plight worsened by the bankruptcy brought on by a Bernie Madoff-like financial predator?

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 30 July 2023

Definition of inebriate

Adjective

In 2019, Ohio State’s office of student life investigated Sigma Alpha Epsilon after an intoxicated student was found conscious but nonresponsive and taken to a medical center, according to university records.

— Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2026
Other proposals included using a mobile holding facility, commonly called a drunk tank or paddy wagon, to remove intoxicated people from the district more quickly.

— CBS News, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of intoxicated

Adjective

After all, oodles of fans still worship at the altar of Jim and Pam, the shaggy-haired salesman and timid receptionist who became a generation of besotted worker bees’ Ross and Rachel — the couple to root for who became the couple to emulate.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026
In the first five minutes, her Judith stabs a man at a party, escapes on skis and celebrates a job well done by bedding a besotted hottie.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026

Definition of besotted

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