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

Naturally, those walks have often turned into quests for something cold, boozy and blended.

— Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
During a tour of the facilities, Merinoff Kwasnieski walked me around the warehouse, encouraging me to take a whiff from a bin of fermenting strawberries (jammy and clear-your-sinuses boozy, all at once).

— Molly Fergus, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2026

Definition of boozy

Adjective

On the side of the highway, the night is a cacophony of blaring horns and the shouts of drunken men.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026
Known as Hangover Noodles, the restaurant serves dishes from a diverse array of Southeast Asian cuisines, from curry and stir-fry to drunken noodles and pho, according to its website.

— Emma Hall, Sacbee.com, 17 July 2026

Definition of drunken

Adjective

Civil lawsuit filed Gary Catronio’s daughter and her best friend were killed in 2013 by a drunk, wrong-way driver on the Sawgrass Expressway in Broward County.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
Another, Jenny Racicot, said that, in 2021, Platner arrived at her house, drunk and uninvited.

— Jasper Craven, New Yorker, 24 July 2026

Definition of drunk

Adjective

Randy Quaid played the tipsy Vietnam vet and former alien abductee Russell Casse, who ultimately delivers righteous vengeance upon Earth’s otherworldly invaders.

— Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 3 July 2026
Taqueria Hoy remains a refuge for factory workers, restaurant crews, tipsy clubbers, cops, families, insomniacs and others hungry in between.

— Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 3 June 2026

Definition of tipsy

Adjective

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
The money covers additional shelter beds, more street outreach, rapid rehousing, safe parking and the serial inebriate program.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023

Definition of inebriate

Adjective

Aleman appeared intoxicated and failed field sobriety exercises.

— Mark Price July 15, Charlotte Observer, 15 July 2026
The records show Peden was previously convicted in Allen County of operating while intoxicated, including a 2018 Level 6 felony conviction stemming from an earlier operating while intoxicated offense.

— Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 9 July 2026

Definition of intoxicated

Adjective

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
There’s a reason why the most violent parts of the far right are so besotted with these images.

— Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026

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