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Synonyms for drunkard

Most common

alcoholic drinker sot wino

All synonyms

Noun

Other

bar fly, booze artist slang AU, grog artist slang AU, tun dated, bouser dated, swillking slang UK

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    A person who is habitually drunk.

Related words

Is a kind of
person imbiber partaker sensualist

Forms

Plural
drunkards → drunks, winos, sots, alcoholics…

Example sentences

  • alcoholic I didn't know that Tom was a recovering alcoholic.
  • drinker Dan confessed to Linda that he was a heavy drinker.
  • wino "The wino is Baya's husband." "Lord have mercy."

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
drunkardsteady
alcoholicfalling
drinkersteady
sotfalling
winorising

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

By length

3 letters
tun, sot1
4 letters
wino2, alky
5 letters
drunk1, rummy2, souse, toper
6 letters
sponge1, boozer2, soaker2, bibber, bouser
7 letters
drinker2, guzzler2, tippler
8 letters
carouser
9 letters
alcoholic4, bacchanal3, inebriate4, swillking
11 letters
dipsomaniac
12 letters
bacchanalian

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