Word Meanings - DIPSOMANIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A morbid an uncontrollable craving for drink, esp. for alcoholic liquors; also improperly used to denote acute and chronic alcoholism.

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• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• DENOTEMENT
  Sign; indication. Note: A word found in some editions of Shakespeare.
• DRINK
  p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• ACUTE
  Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-
• CRAVEN
  Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless. "His craven heart." Shak. The poor craven bridegroom said never a word. Sir. W. Scott. In craven fear of the sarcasm of Dorset. Macualay. (more info) struck down, p. p. of cravanter, crevanter, to break, crush,
• DRINKER
  One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
• DENOTE
  1. To mark out plainly; to signify by a visible sign; to serve as the sign or name of; to indicate; to point out; as, the hands of the clock denote the hour. The better to denote her to the doctor. Shak. 2. To be the sign of; to betoken;
• UNCONTROLLABLE
  1. Incapable of being controlled; ungovernable; irresistible; as, an uncontrollable temper; uncontrollable events. 2. Indisputable; irrefragable; as, an uncontrollable maxim; an uncontrollable title. Swift. -- Un`con*trol"la*ble*ness,
• ALCOHOLISM
  A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.
• DRINKABLENESS
  State of being drinkable.
• MORBID
  1. Not sound and healthful; induced by a diseased or abnormal condition; diseased; sickly; as, morbid humors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne. 2. Of or pertaining to disease
• CRAVATTED
  Wearing a cravat. The young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted. Thackeray.
• CRAVER
  One who craves or begs.
• ALCOHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
• ACUTENESS
  Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis. Syn. -- Penetration; sagacity; keenness; ingenuity; shrewdness; subtlety; sharp-wittedness. (more info) 1. The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.
• OVERDRINK
  To drink to excess.
• PERACUTE
  Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC
• ANTICHRONICAL
  Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.