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

This is the loose canon who loves nothing more than a boozy brunch or last-minute excursion and will make friends with anyone at the drop of a hat.

— Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Sep. 2026
Whinny’s is their poolside service with Mediterranean fare and boozy frozen cocktails.

— Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of boozy

Adjective

Patel also directed Wilkins’ security detail to escort one of her allegedly drunk friends home after a night out in Nashville, MS Now reported in December 2025.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026
There were half-drunk espresso martinis on nearly every surface after Heather Dubrow tried to drink the bartender out of coffee.

— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 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

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
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, was founded in 1980 by a mother whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 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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