drunkards
Tavern's frequent regulars
Drunkards is the plural of drunkard—a person who habitually drinks to excess.
The word carries a tone of moral disapproval that alcoholic, the clinical term, avoids.
Drunkard sounds old-fashioned and judgmental: The preacher warned against becoming drunkards.
It appears in older literature and religious contexts more than in contemporary speech.
People dependent on liquor
- addictsPeople with compulsions
- dependentsPeople financially supported
- cirrhosisIrreversible hepatic scarring
- withdrawalAct of taking away
detox · rehabilitation · recovery · AA · twelve-step · sponsor · sobriety · relapse
People dependent on liquor
- boozersExcessive alcohol consumers
- lushesChronic heavy drinkers
- sotsChronic heavy drinkers
- winosChronic cheap-alcohol drinkers
tipplers · barflies · pub regulars · binge drinkers · carouser · revelers · heavy drinkers · pub crawlers
Chronic heavy drinkers
- FalstaffComic knight, corpulent braggart
- BacchusRoman wine god
- wassailersFestive holiday singers
- carousersBoisterous party-goers
debauchees · dissipaters · libertines · merrymakers · revelers · bacchanals · cupbearers
Moral law violators
- gluttonsHabitual overeaters
- wastrelsHabitual reckless spenders
- ne'er-do-wellsIdle, worthless individuals
- reprobatesMorally unprincipled people
degenerates · fallen · wayward · dissolute · intemperate · weak-willed · lost souls · prodigals
alcoholics
People dependent on liquor
- addictsPeople with compulsions
- dependentsPeople financially supported
- cirrhosisIrreversible hepatic scarring
withdrawal · detox · rehabilitation · recovery · AA · twelve-step · sponsor · sobriety · relapse · tremors
alcoholics
People dependent on liquor
winos · tipplers · barflies · pub regulars · binge drinkers · carouser · revelers · heavy drinkers · pub crawlers
sots
Chronic heavy drinkers
- FalstaffComic knight, corpulent braggart
- BacchusRoman wine god
- wassailersFestive holiday singers
carousers · debauchees · dissipaters · libertines · merrymakers · revelers · bacchanals · cupbearers
sinners
Moral law violators
- gluttonsHabitual overeaters
- wastrelsHabitual reckless spenders
- ne'er-do-wellsIdle, worthless individuals
reprobates · degenerates · fallen · wayward · dissolute · intemperate · weak-willed · lost souls · prodigals · backsliders
- ProhibitionProhibition, speakeasies, bootlegger, bootleggers, speakeasy
- drinkersdrinkers, imbiber, imbibers, alcoholic, alcoholics
drunkardsteetotalers
Those avoiding all alcohol
abstainers · nondrinkers · teetotallers · prohibitionists · dry drunks
drunkardsascetics
People practicing severe self-discipline
monks · stoics · health nuts · minimalists