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Synonyms for dipsomaniac

20 synonyms
3 antonyms

noun

Most common

alcoholic soak lush drunkard

All synonyms

Noun

alcoholic, drunkard, drunk, soak, lush, sot, boozer, soaker, toper formal, souse, alky, dipso informal, sponge, drinker, wino, guzzler, inebriate, bibber, tippler, pisshead vulgar slang

Antonyms

teetotal, teetotaler, abstainer

All antonyms of dipsomaniac →

Definitions

n. 1
One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.

Related words

Word family: dipsomania

Forms

Plural: dipsomaniacs → alcoholics, drunkards, drunks, soaks…

Example sentences

alcoholic I didn't know that Tom was a recovering alcoholic.
soak You have tennis elbow. Soak your arm in warm water.
lush The goat peacefully grazed on the lush hillside.
drunkard He repeatedly bashed the drunkard with his stick.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
dipsomaniac		steady
alcoholic		falling
soak		rising
lush		rising
drunkard		steady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters: sot¹
4 letters: soak¹, lush¹, wino², alky
5 letters: drunk¹, souse, toper, dipso
6 letters: sponge¹, boozer², soaker², bibber
7 letters: drinker², guzzler², tippler
8 letters: drunkard², pisshead
9 letters: alcoholic⁴, inebriate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (wino² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français: dipsomane