drunkardnoun [ C ]
/ˈdrʌŋ.kəd//ˈdrʌŋ.kɚd/disapprovinga person who often drinks large amounts of alcohol:
Her husband turned out to be a drunkard.
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- A cousin, who was a drunkard, took the picture and traded it for a case of tequila.
- He used to work for the US State Department but got fired for being a drunkard, as he put it.
- He died a drunkard's death, leaving behind a widow to care for their daughter and his aged mother.
- He is an orphan, living in a train station with his drunkard uncle.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- intoxicating
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- sozzled
- whacked
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