Word Meanings - DRUNKENNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.

Additional info about word: DRUNKENNESS

1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I. Watts. 2. Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. Passion is the drunkenness of the mind. South. Syn. -- Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. -- Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success." Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRUNKENNESS)

• Intoxication
• Venom
• poison
• obfuscation
• bewilderment
• delirium
• hallucination
• ravishment
• ecstasy
• inebriation
• drunkenness
• inebriety

Related words: (words related to DRUNKENNESS)

• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• INEBRIATION
  The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay. Syn. -- See Drunkenness.
• VENOMOUS
  Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects. 3. Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer. Venomous snake , any serpent which has poison glands and fangs,
• OBFUSCATION
  The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened. "Obfuscation of the cornea." E. Darwin.
• INEBRIETY
  Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.
• POISON BUSH
  Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc. The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or
• ECSTASY
  A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne. (more info) 1. The state of being beside one's self
• INTOXICATION
  A poisoning, as by a spirituous or a narcotic substance. 2. The state of being intoxicated or drunk; inebriation; ebriety; drunkenness; the act of intoxicating or making drunk. 2. A high excitement of mind; an elation which rises to enthusiasm,
• POISON
  potio a drink, draught, potion, a poisonous draught, fr. potare to 1. Any agent which, when introduced into the animal organism, is capable of producing a morbid, noxious, or deadly effect upon it; as, morphine is a deadly poison; the poison of
• DELIRIUM
  A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• VENOM
  1. Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees, etc., secrete in a state of health, and communicate by thing or stinging. Or hurtful worm
• POISONER
  One who poisons. Shak.
• POISONABLE
  1. Capable of poisoning; poisonous. "Poisonable heresies." Tooker. 2. Capable of being poisoned.
• RAVISHMENT
  1. The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone. 2. The state of being ravished; rapture; transport of
• HALLUCINATION
  The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement
• POISONOUS
  Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious. Shak. -- Poi"son*ous*ly, adv. -- Poi"son*ous*ness, n.
• OUTVENOM
  To exceed in venom.
• ENVENOM
  1. To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to poison by impregnating with venom. Alcides . . .
• SPIT-VENOM
  Poison spittle; poison ejected from the mouth. Hooker.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• IMPOISONER
  A poisoner. Beau. & Fi.
• IMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning or impoisoning. Pope.
• EMPOISON
  To poison; to impoison. Shak.
• EMPOISONER
  Poisoner. Bacon.