Dipsomaniac

//dɪp.sə(ʊ)ˈmeɪn.i.æk// noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.

    "The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."

  2. 2
    a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually wordnet
  3. 3
    A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

Synonyms

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alcoholicalcoholiclushacidheadaddictalcoholic addict

Example

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"He is eminently practical, withal; and not satisfied with describing and deploring the effects of drunkenness, he gives us a recipe which he warrants to cure the most hardened dipsomaniac within a week."

Etymology

From dipso- + -maniac.

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