tipsy

(tĭp'sē)
adj., -si·er, -si·est.

1. Slightly intoxicated.
2. Unsteady or crooked.

[From TIP².]

tipsily tip'si·ly adv.
tipsiness tip'si·ness n.

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adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunk, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden. Informal cockeyed, 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 sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.

adj

Definition: inebriated
Antonyms: sober

For a list of words related to tipsy, see:

• Vulgar, Rude, Degenerate, or Wild
• Drunkenness, Drunkards, and Alcoholism - tipsy: (adj) slightly intoxicated

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - påvirket, lettere beruset

Nederlands (Dutch)
aangeschoten

Français (French)
adj. - pompette (fam)

Deutsch (German)
adj. - angeheitert, beschwipst

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ασταθής, μισομεθυσμένος, μισοζαλισμένος

Italiano (Italian)
brillo

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - ébrio, embriagado, bêbedo

Русский (Russian)
пьяненький, слегка подвыпивший, "под мухой"

Español (Spanish)
adj. - achispado, alegre

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lätt berusad, halvfull, lite påverkad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
喝醉的, 倾斜的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 喝醉的, 傾斜的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 얼근히 취한, 취해서 비틀거리는, 기운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - ほろ酔いの, 傾いた

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) قلق, عرضه للأنقلاب, مترنح سكرا‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שתוי, מבוסם‬

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