Meanings
comparative more crapulous · superlative most crapulous
- Characterized by excessive eating or drinking.
Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills.
2021, “Retired Janitors of Idaho” (21:47 from the start), in Succession, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Ewan Roy (James Cromwell)Synonyms: debauched, intemperate
- Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.
- Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating.
He was in a crapulous state of booze, too, and demanded another thirty shillings.
1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 711 more example
By the time Swelter's monologue was dragging to its crapulous close, Mr. Flay was pacing onwards […]
1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus GroanSynonyms: crapulent, drunk, wamble-cropped, barfy, mawkish, nauseated, nauseatic, pukey
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCharacterized by excessive eating or drinking.
adjectiveSurcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivesuffering from excessive eating or drinking
adjectivegiven to gross intemperance in eating or drinking
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Ancient Greekκραιπάλη (kraipálē)
- Latincrāpula
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃ed-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₃édosder.?
- Latincrāpulōsus
- Middle Englishcrapulous
- Englishcrapulous
From late Middle English crapulous, from Latin crapulosus (“drunken”), from crapula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”). Compare French crapuleux. Unrelated to the word crap.
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Bulgarian махмурлия
- махмурлия (mahmurlija)suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking
Finnish mässäilevä, krapulainen
- mässäilevächaracterized by excessive eating or drinking
- krapulainensuffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking
- humalainensuffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking
- ylensyönyt (overeaten)suffering from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking
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