1
as in absorbent
able to soak up liquids especially readily
special drying cloths that are so bibulous that they can absorb 10 times their weight in water
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2
as in drunken
given to excessive use of alcoholic beverages
a campaign to make the bibulous fraternity brother a collegiate archetype of the past
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Recent Examples of bibulous
From that bibulous beginning, Mr. Epstein became a driving force behind the Library of America, which published its first books in 1979.
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Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?
—Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
Aside from his bibulous peculiarities, Old Roy is generous, brave, courteous and a keen lover of fun.
—John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018
Old-school voters expecting him to reinstate the fading habit of the long and bibulous lunch may have to wait.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 May 2017
Washington Post, 5 Feb. 2022
But how differently would the Iron Lady have handled Brexit or Jean-Claude Juncker, the EU’s bibulous president?
—Philip Delves Broughton, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
Aside from his bibulous peculiarities, Old Roy is generous, brave, courteous and a keen lover of fun.
—John MacCormack, San Antonio Express-News, 20 Jan. 2018
Old-school voters expecting him to reinstate the fading habit of the long and bibulous lunch may have to wait.
—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 9 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bibulous
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In flood-prone Gowanus, where wastewater has a tendency to surface on sidewalks and streets during storms, absorbent ground was installed more than a decade ago in the form of Sponge Park, a rain garden that the landscape architect Susannah Drake created along the canal.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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Organic fabrics like long-staple Turkish-cotton fibers that are made to feel soft to the touch, as well as lightweight and absorbent blends with bamboo were favorites.—
Nashia Baker,
Architectural Digest,
3 Apr. 2026
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Meis moves from the Baroque virtuosity of Rubens’s study of a drunken mythological figure, through the jagged modernist puzzle of Marc’s allegorical animals, to Mitchell’s painterly abstractions and their flickering landscape allusions.—
Jed Perl,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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Take Jackie, who comes into the ER after a drunken accident.—
Jonathan Hunt-Glassman,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Bibulous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bibulous. Accessed 9 Apr. 2026.
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