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libatious

libatious adjective: having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.

Adjective

libatious (comparative more libatious, superlative most libatious)

  1. (humorous) Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.
    • The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe, often on their cottage doorsteps.1892, Amanda M. Douglas, The Heirs of Bradley House, page 319
    • Mama said he'd be a failure
      Live down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah
      Libacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer
    Synonyms:
    boozy

Examples of libatious in a sentence

  • […] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test.2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:
  • Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent.2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38:

Synonyms of libatious

Forms of libatious

comparativemore libatious
superlativemost libatious
alternative formlibacious

Origin of libatious

From libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous.

Questions about libatious

What does libatious mean?
Libatious means having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts.
How do you use libatious in a sentence?
[…] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test.
What part of speech is libatious?
Libatious is an adjective.

Words near libatious in the dictionary

  1. libational
  2. libationary
  3. libationer
  4. libationers
  5. libations
  6. libatious
  7. libatory
  8. Libavian
  9. Libay-libay
  10. libbard
  11. libbard's bane

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