INTOXICATED

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does intoxicated mean? 

• INTOXICATED (adjective)
  The adjective INTOXICATED has 2 senses:

1. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
2. as if under the influence of alcohol

  Familiarity information: INTOXICATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTOXICATED (adjective)

Meaning:

Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

Synonyms:

drunk; inebriated; intoxicated

Context examples:

a noisy crowd of intoxicated sailors / helplessly inebriated

Similar:

bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

beery (smelling of beer)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; potty; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tiddley; tiddly; tight; tipsy; wet (very drunk)

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)

half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')

high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))

hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)

Antonym:

sober (not affected by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Meaning:

As if under the influence of alcohol

Synonyms:

drunk; intoxicated

Context examples:

felt intoxicated by her success / drunk with excitement

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)