DRUNKS Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

drunks

noun

plural of drunk

as in alcoholics

a person who makes a habit of getting drunk you can't trust anything that old drunk says

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as in sprees

a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything

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Recent Examples of drunks For speeders, drunks, reckless drivers and the like. — Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 25 June 2026 This is different from the pastime counterfactuals enjoyed after the fact by barfly drunks and social media idiots. — Kyle Wagner, New York Daily News, 3 June 2026 All of us kept an eye out for drunks, who tipped better. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 The movie follows a group of petty cheats, liars and drunks who are duped by nefarious opportunists who visit their crumbling town. — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026

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The child of alcoholics, Dreesen often referenced his rough-and-tumble upbringing in his comedy sets, telling tales of little Tommy shining shoes in the taverns of the South Side to feed his siblings.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
In fact, severe alcoholics may become immunocompromised.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 14 May 2026

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This spring, college hoops teams went on staggering spending sprees, with some individual players set to earn as much as entire teams did a season ago.

— Brendan Marks, New York Times, 26 July 2026
The People’s Bank of China, for instance, has pushed for multi-month buying sprees, while the Reserve Bank of India has repatriated roughly 100 tonnes of gold back to domestic vaults.

— Angelica Ang, Fortune, 15 July 2026

Definition of sprees

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Water benders can freeze ice or raise currents at will; earth benders can move rock or even, in some cases, manipulate metal.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026
There, he’s attacked by The Denied, a militia group of non-benders who feel like second-class citizens in this world seeking an old totem of a prior Avatar known as Sonam.

— Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 20 July 2026

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