crapulent

[krap-yuh-luhnt]

adjective

1. sick from gross excess in drinking or eating.

crapulent

/ ˈkræpjʊlənt, ˈkræpjʊləs /

adjective

1. given to or resulting from intemperance

2. suffering from intemperance; drunken

Other Word Forms

• crapulently adverb
• crapulence noun
• crapulousness noun
• crapulency noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of crapulent¹

1650–60; < Late Latin crāpulentus drunk, derivative of Latin crāpula drunkenness < Greek kraipálē drunkenness, a hangover; -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of crapulent¹

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

Example Sentences

Now imagine the unlimited future it might have under a new owner who didn’t run his affairs like a crapulent mini-Caligula.

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They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous.

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The man, sadder but wiser, yet still diaphanously crapulent, went back to bed.

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“Remorse over the crapulent major’s death was ringing me up a few times a day, tenacious as a debt collector,” he thinks.

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There were fish shops, cheap Italian restaurants, and the long lines of low houses vanished in crapulent night.

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