crapulent

crap·u·lence

 (krăp′yə-ləns)

n.

1. Sickness caused by excessive eating or drinking.

2. Excessive indulgence; intemperance.

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[From crapulent, sick from gluttony, from Late Latin crāpulentus, very drunk, from Latin crāpula, intoxication, from Greek kraipalē.]

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crap′u·lent adj.

crap′u·lous adj.

crapulent

(ˈkræpjʊlənt) or

crapulous

adj

1. given to or resulting from intemperance

2. suffering from intemperance; drunken

[C18: from Late Latin crāpulentus drunk, from Latin crāpula, from Greek kraipalē drunkenness, headache resulting therefrom]

ˈcrapulence n

ˈcrapulently, ˈcrapulously adv

ˈcrapulousness, crapulosity n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

crapulent - suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach" crapulous gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; "over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands"; "a gluttonous debauch"; "a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure"

crapulent

adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor:

besotted, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy.

Informal: cockeyed, stewed.

Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked.

Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in the wind.