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dipsomaniacal

dipsomaniacal adjective: pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.

Adjective

dipsomaniacal (comparative more dipsomaniacal, superlative most dipsomaniacal)

  1. Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
    • […]dividing his remaining energies between stints as a tennis pro at ranch-type resorts and then short-run productions at something called the Desert Beat Theater Project, the father, a dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death by spider-bite and by stage fright[…]1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 63

Forms of dipsomaniacal

comparativemore dipsomaniacal
superlativemost dipsomaniacal

Questions about dipsomaniacal

What does dipsomaniacal mean?
Dipsomaniacal means pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
What part of speech is dipsomaniacal?
Dipsomaniacal is an adjective.

Words near dipsomaniacal in the dictionary

  1. dipsogenic
  2. dipsogens
  3. dipsology
  4. dipsomania
  5. dipsomaniac
  6. dipsomaniacal
  7. dipsomaniacs
  8. dipsomanias
  9. dipsopathic
  10. dipsopathy
  11. dipsophobia

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