inebriated

American  

[in-ee-bree-ey-tid] / ɪnˈi briˌeɪ tɪd /

Sometimes inebriate

adjective

1. drunk or intoxicated, or exhilarated or stupefied in a way that suggests intoxication.

   An inebriated couple were arrested when they took their granddaughter for a joyride, pulling her in a toy car behind their van.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of inebriate.

Other Word Forms

• uninebriated
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of inebriated

inebriate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Compare meaning

How does inebriated compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

• inebriated vs. intoxicated

Explanation

Inebriated is just a fancy way of saying drunk. If you see a man staggering down the street grasping a bottle of rum in his hand, chances are he's inebriated. When you want to use an impressive word to say that someone is drunk, go ahead and use inebriated. If you like, you can also use it to refer to someone who is intoxicated with substances other than alcohol, but at its heart, inebriated simply means tanked, blotto, stinko, drunk. In more recent years, it has taken on the sense of being particularly energized or zany and exhilarated with drunkenness, but still drunk.

Example Sentences

Inebriated by their newly found powers, little Caesars - natives and financial colonialists - claimed their little plots of crime and avarice, a not so secret order of disintegration of the social fabric.

From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Vaknin, Samuel

Inebriated with the cup of bliss which I had only tasted, I began to repent me of my promise to leave Womla.

From A Trip to Venus by Munro, John

The originals of many pictures made familiar to us by engravings, are still to be found here, such as "Noah Inebriated," "Building of the Tower of Babel," "The Last Judgment," etc.

From Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Ballou, Maturin Murray