inebriate

1. 1.

   a chronic drinker

   Synonymsdrunkarddrunkrummysotwino

   Broaderdrinker

   Narroweralcoholic

Other forms of inebriate

plural

inebriates·

past tense

inebriated·

present participle

inebriating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inebriate

What does inebriate mean?

inebriate means "fill with sublime emotion". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inebriate?

inebriate has 4 syllables: in-eb-ri-ate. The stress falls on "eb". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈnɛbɹiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for inebriate?

Close synonyms include exhilarate, tickle pink, thrill, exalt, beatify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inebriate a common word?

inebriate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inebriate?

95 words rhyme with inebriate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.