Definition

Adjective: * Very drunk; intoxicated to an extreme degree. This word is an informal, often humorous or slightly old-fashioned term for being heavily under the influence of alcohol.

Usage

• The word soused is used as a predicate adjective (following a linking verb like , , ) to describe a state of extreme drunkenness.
• It is informal and carries a connotation of being completely soaked or saturated with alcohol, much like food that is pickled.

Examples

• After the office party, he was completely soused and couldn't find his keys.
• They got soused on cheap beer and spent the night singing loudly.
• I haven't seen him that soused since his college graduation.

Advanced Usage

• "to be soused to the gills": An intensified idiom meaning extremely drunk.
  • By midnight, the entire wedding party was soused to the gills.

Variants and Related Words

• Souse (verb): To make someone drunk; to plunge into liquid.
  • He tried to souse his sorrows in whiskey.
• Souse (noun, archaic): A drunkard.
  • The old souse stumbled out of the tavern.

Synonyms

• Inebriated (formal)
• Intoxicated (formal/clinical)
• Plastered (slang)
• Wasted (slang)
• Pickled (slang, similar imagery)
• Blotto (slang)

Related Idioms

• Drunk as a skunk: A common simile for being very drunk.
• Three sheets to the wind: An idiom meaning very drunk, originally a nautical term.

Adjective

1. very drunk