crapulous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of CRAPULOUS

given to excessive use of alcoholic beverages <a crapulous wastrel who went through the family's once-fabulous fortune in less than a decade>

Synonyms bibulous, drunken, intemperate, sottish

Related Words debauched, dissipated, dissolute; drunk, high, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded [slang], soused, tipsy

Near Antonyms clearheaded, sober, straight; abstemious, abstinent, teetotal

Antonyms temperate

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