Word Meanings - DRUNKARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

Related words: (words related to DRUNKARD)

• WHOSESOEVER
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• GLUTTONY
  Excess in eating; extravagant indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.
• STRONGYLOID
  Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• STRONGYLID
  Strongyloid.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• HABIT
  habiten to dwell, F. habiter, fr. L. habitare to have frequently, to 1. To inhabit. In thilke places as they habiten. Rom. of R. 2. To dress; to clothe; to array. They habited themselves lite those rural deities. Dryden. 3. To accustom;
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• DRUNKEN
  1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. 3. Pertaining
• STRONG
  strong; akin to D. & G. streng strict, rigorous, OHG. strengi strong, brave, harsh, Icel. strangr strong, severe, Dan. streng, Sw. sträng 1. Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily
• STRONGLY
  In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly.
• HABITUATION
  The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.
• HABITABLE
  A dwelling place. Chaucer. Southey.
• GLUTTONOUS
  Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.
• POVERTY
  1. The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." Keble. The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21. 2. Any deficiency of elements
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• HEADSTRONG
  1. Not easily restrained; ungovernable; obstinate; stubborn. Not let headstrong boy my will control. Dryden. 2. Directed by ungovernable will, or proceeding from obstinacy. Dryden. Syn. -- Violent; obstinate; ungovernable; unratable; stubborn;
• INHABITANCE; INHABITANCY
  The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy. (more info) 1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of
• INHABITATION
  1. The act of inhabiting, or the state of being inhabited; indwelling. The inhabitation of the Holy Ghost. Bp. Pearson. 2. Abode; place of dwelling; residence. Milton. 3. Population; inhabitants. Sir T. Browne. The beginning of nations and
• RECHABITE
  One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers
• HEADSTRONGNESS
  Obstinacy. Gayton.
• INHABITED
  Uninhabited. Brathwait.
• NONINHABITANT
  One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.