BEERY Synonyms: 75 Similar and Opposite Words

beery

adjective

Definition of beery

as in boozy

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Recent Examples of beery 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

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
The 84th annual Golden Globes Awards are months away, but the once boozy and sometimes unhinged ceremony is front and center right now, at least in the court dockets.

— Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of boozy

Adjective

The drunken Ken spends his time on such things as warbling a karaoke version of a 4 Non Blondes song while an unkempt Ryu is a purveyor of ramen so bad even a stray cat won’t eat it.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2026
The film features drunken sing-alongs and dancing with abandon in the family kitchen.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of drunken

Adjective

Prosecutors say Canadian visitor Mitchell Fairbarn took Peachy from the Flamingo Las Vegas habitat in a drunk prank and injured the bird; his lawyer says Fairbarn never intended harm.

— Jessica Hill, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
This is where Krasner and Pollock lived for nearly 11 years, until Pollock killed himself and one of his passengers, Edith Metzger, while driving drunk, injuring his girlfriend, Ruth Kligman, too.

— John Yau, ARTnews.com, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of drunk

Adjective

The filmmakers forgot to give her an arc, and so she is reduced to tipsy comic relief in a bad wig.

— Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 11 Sep. 2026
Scrolling in the back of an Uber on the way to a party, and slightly tipsy, Roth found his way into another live auction.

— Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of tipsy

Adjective

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
Trump won the popular vote; if there were ever a time for Philip sober to splash cold water on an inebriated majority, this would be it.

— Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 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

Investigators learned that Hellewell had offered to walk home with one of her male friends, who’d become overly intoxicated.

— Natasha Holt, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Since at least the 1970s and 1980s, there have been incidents of gang rape of intoxicated, incapacitated women in fraternity houses.

— Richard Hall, Time, 7 Oct. 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

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