tipsy

tipsy
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
adj. intoxicated, high (sl.), tight (sl.). See drinking.
II
(Roget's IV) modif.
Syn. intoxicated, inebriated, tight*; see drunk .
See Synonym Study at drunk .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.
intoxicated, inebriated, unsteady, *three sheets to the wind, woozy, *pickled, *loaded, *crocked, under the influence.
ANT.: sober, *stone sober
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden. Informal: cock-eyed, stewed. Slang: blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheets in (or to) the wind. See DRUGS.

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