Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Drunken; given up to excess in drinking; characterized by intemperance.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characterized by excessive eating or drinking.
- adj. Suffering physically from the consequences of excessive eating or drinking.
- adj. Surcharged with liquor; alcoholism; sick from excessive indulgence in drinking or eating; drunk; given to excesses.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. suffering from excessive eating or drinking
- adj. given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking
Etymologies
- Latin crapulentus, crapulosus; compare French crapuleux; see crapula. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Joe -- love the word crapulous -- I am going to borrow it the first chance I get.”
“Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass.”
“It's one of those twee, child-centric works that sift through the last shakings of the postmodernist bag for ways to enliven their inch-deep whimsy and fathomless solipsism – crapulous, cod-Vonnegut cutesiness being Foer's weakness – and often presume an intimacy with grave and terrible events, the better to drape themselves in the mantle of importance.”
The Guardian: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close gleams with Oscar worthiness
“The manband in question, the Overtones, are both dull as dishwater and half as attractive in total as the cleft in Gary Barlow's chin, but they do add a layer of crapulous doowop harmony that really does make everything better.”
“The major difference in new-millenium-Gen-X pregnancy movies is that they are all about confirming "alternative" families, which is, of course, all the to good, if you consider giving alternative families their own crapulous sub-genre "good.”
“And for a very good reason: the genre is crapulous, status-quo-reifying, herd-placating "family fare.”
“I have to say I don't recognize that fictional Baum at all, calling What Maisie Knew "line after crapulous line" and quoting William's criticism of American "worship of the bitch-goddess Success" -- he was too Victorian to write like that.”
“And even though all the real Greeks absolutely sucked at epic verse, never rising any higher than that crapulous bore, the Argonautica.”
“Let me add my approbation for your staying with this, and working the crapulous part of the thesaurus.”
“There is so much desperate, crapulous spew from the McCain campaign right now that it's hard to keep track of it all -- but this ad, via Andrew Sullivan, marks some sort of low.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crapulous’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Ayatollah's list
Trinkets of lexical goodness.
floccinaucinihili..., quomodocunquize, curmudgeon, illaqueate, ipsissimosity, heterochthonous, hakenkreuz, forisfamiliate, appropinquate, apodyopsis, baryphony, cachinnate and 146 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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just neat
insolent, redolent, clammy, chunder, berate, vainqueur, neotony, milquetoast, semprini, twaddle, plethora, enteron and 29 more...
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ubermensch's list
THE list
behoove, germane, imbroglio, pervicacious, squalid, bombastic, pudendum, chimera, crapulous, i-know-huh, ersatz, ennui and 8 more...
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Pseudo-seduction
With which to confuse innocent ladies (or gentlemen, if you prefer) who might be invited to don a coverslut and come to tour an adulterine castle. Plausible deniability through lexicographical obsc...
adulterine, coverslut, cunctatory, puissant, quincunx, coccyx, groin vault, sexpartite vault, nookshaft, putlog hole, cuirass, mensuration and 35 more...
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Drunkie
Haay gusy! uiI lieke twebb sit e !!
alcoholize, usquebaugh, whiffled, vinous, enology, aleconner, gambrinous, alcofrolic, perfect barf, bibulous, bleezed, brannigan and 144 more...
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generationnext's Words
petulant, vehement, pensive, lascivious, vacillate, histrionic, satiated, svelte, lithe, zeitgeist, viscous, sommelier and 526 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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via Weird and Wonderful Words
Catch-all for things culled from Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, and Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, by Erin McKean, et al.
aboulia, alexiteric, angletouch, dactylion, alveary, sparlire, glabella, philtrum, pallium, heart-spoon, hyperprosexia, paraprosexia and 438 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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bintalshamsa's list
My Favorite Words
weltschmerz, perspicacity, idée fixe, invigilator, salubrious, tchotchke, ex nihilo, invidious, malapropism, naïve, sardonic, elide and 1402 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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Wordwild's Delights
Delightful words to read and use
plangent, ribald, titubant, sidereal, pelagic, improvident, dolorous, parlous, baleful, precatory, pied, mephitic and 247 more...
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crapulous.
oroboros From the police blotter of the SLO (San Luis Obispo, CA) City News, March 10-16 2011:
Alcohol: Police responded at 12:41 a.m. to the Native Lounge on the 1100 block of Chorro St. after one of the natives got restless and rough. He was arrested for suspicion of being bent in public. Another ruckus broke out at 1:37 a.m. at Mo Tav, just around the corner on the 700 block of Higuera St. There, a belle of the ball was arrested for being crapulous." Mar 18, 2011
dontcry I was having a crapulous morning, but the eggs and bacon have taken the edge off.
Jun 29, 2008
yarb ...and having the shakes
uncellophaning fags this crapulous morning...
- Peter Reading, Editorial, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 29, 2008
reesetee And Jabberwockian, too. :-) Feb 8, 2008
yarb It does look like a Seuss word! In the line of gruvulous. Feb 8, 2008
reesetee O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! Feb 8, 2008
chained_bear Also, every single time I see it, I think of Dr. Seuss. Feb 8, 2008
reesetee NO! See, this is one of those seemingly madeupical words that is actually real.
Uh oh. I feel a list coming on.... Feb 6, 2008
chained_bear I actually saw this in one of the Aubrey/Maturin novels the other day! I was shocked; I had been convinced, completely without evidence, that it was madeupical! Feb 6, 2008
kewpid This word is too good to be true. Feb 6, 2008