Word Meanings - DIPSOMANIAC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

Related words: (words related to DIPSOMANIAC)

• ALCOHOLIC
  Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• IRREPRESSIBLE
  Not capable of being repressed, restrained, or controlled; as, irrepressible joy; an irrepressible conflict. W. H. Steward.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish