sottish

sot·tish

adj \ˈsä-tish\

Definition of SOTTISH

: resembling a sot : drunken; also : doltish, stupid

— sot·tish·ly adverb

— sot·tish·ness noun

Examples of SOTTISH

1. <you could smell the whiskey on her sottish aunt's breath from a block away!>
2. <a comic actor who frequently played the sottish curmudgeon>

First Known Use of SOTTISH

1583

Related to SOTTISH

Synonyms: besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunken, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], drunk, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms: sober, straight

Related Words: maudlin; beery; befuddled, bleary-eyed, crapulous, dopey (also dopy), rocky, strung out, stupefied; debauched, dissipated, dissolute; alcoholic, bibulous, dipsomaniacal

Near Antonyms: abstemious, abstinent, dry, temperate, teetotal; clearheaded, cool, level, steady

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Rhymes with SOTTISH

hottish, schottische, Scottish