BUZZED Synonyms: 143 Similar and Opposite Words

buzzed

verb

past tense of buzz

as in burst

to be copiously supplied for months the area has been buzzing with rumors that a megacorporation plans to locate its headquarters here

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as in sped

to proceed or move quickly we've been buzzing around all morning getting ready for the meeting with the VIPs from the head office

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as in hummed

to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound the little plane buzzed past the crowd

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Recent Examples of buzzed Everything buzzed in Gateway Center Arena in College Park as the Dream completed an impressive comeback. —

Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 24 May 2026 Aside from the prize-winners, this year’s selection also featured market breakout Club Kid and the buzzed about opening film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. —

Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 22 May 2026 An employee since 2002, Taylor led The Star through a set of swinging back doors and into a concrete room with Southern Pride and Ole Hickory smokers, which quietly hummed and buzzed. —

Kansas City Star, 20 May 2026 Outside buzzed the controversial Court Street bike lane, the subject of a recent lawsuit which Dornagon covered closely. —

Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 14 May 2026 Altadena buzzed with the sound of construction in late April. —

Aarne Heikkila, NBC news, 14 May 2026 What isn’t at Cannes has been as buzzed about as much as what is. —

ABC News, 12 May 2026 The new feature will be produced by Studiocanal and Bien ou Bien Productions, and has been buzzed about since 2022 (during a December 2025 event, the shingle had much to say about the project, via Variety). —

Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 May 2026 At the time of his murder, Mizell was in a lounge on the studio’s second floor with another man when two men were buzzed in. —

Andrew Flanagan, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026

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But among the regular assortment of items that would burst the seams of your bank account or your apartment’s square footage, this year’s design week featured all sorts of small, excellent objects, and many of them were even affordable.

— Anthony Paletta, Curbed, 23 May 2026
Their easy, hedonic seductiveness emerges, too, via Yuskavage’s lush, rounded, fleshy brushstrokes (a different sort of stroke material, for the patriarchy or for anyone else), which render everything from boobs to bellies to nipples smooth and swollen, like a succulent fruit fixing to burst.

— Naomi Fry, New Yorker, 23 May 2026