beery

adjective

Definition of beerynext
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for beery
  1. boozy
  2. drunken
  3. drunk
  4. tipsy
  5. inebriated
  6. inebriate
  7. intoxicated
  8. besotted
Adjective
  • This thick, creamy and boozy blended milkshake was invented by Detroit bartender Jerome Adams at the Bayview Yacht Club in 1968 and captures the spirit of Detroit’s sailing scene, according to Laidlaw.
    — Kate Bradshaw, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
  • Her current menu actually offers nine mocktails, compared to eight boozy beverages.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
Definition of boozy
Adjective
  • The department can focus on drunken driving enforcement through securing grant money that enables them to hire officers to focus specifically on DUI enforcement, Stemmet noted.
    — Molly Morrow, Chicago Tribune, 10 July 2026
  • In that episode, Cal attends Nate and Cassie's (Sydney Sweeney) emotionally charged wedding with his wife, Marsha (Paula Marshall) and gives a drunken wedding speech.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 8 July 2026
Definition of drunken
Adjective
  • There were just a bunch of drunk guys at the mansion and a couple Playboy bunnies that were contractually hired to walk around and wave.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
  • Jenny Racicot, who lives in Maine, told Politico that Platner entered her home in 2021 while drunk and assaulted her.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 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
  • The inebriated father who sometimes leapt upon his sleeping children, fists flailing?
    — Jason Prokowiew, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
  • The two were among the most inebriated following the Knicks’ Game 5 victory over the Spurs at Frost Bank Center.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 18 June 2026
Definition of inebriated
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
  • There were also 125 driving while intoxicated cases and nine boating while intoxicated cases.
    — Emily Harter, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
  • In a 2001 interview with Q magazine, Ozzy recalled being heavily intoxicated during their nuptials.
    — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of intoxicated
Adjective
  • 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
  • There’s a real industrial approach to the sound — hard, percussive rhythms beneath the plush interior of melody, and lyrics that are just about the most fun a listener can have pretending he, too, is this glamorously besotted or gloriously bereft.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
Definition of besotted

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“Beery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/beery. Accessed 15 Jul. 2026.

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