under the influence
Too drunk driving
Under the influence means intoxicated by alcohol or drugs, especially while operating a vehicle.
The phrase appears in legal contexts—driving under the influence, abbreviated DUI—where it describes impairment sufficient to affect judgment or motor control.
Used alone, it typically implies drunkenness: He was clearly under the influence when he showed up to the meeting.
- totaledDestroyed or summed
- plasteredExtremely intoxicated
- wastedUsed without good result
- bashedStruck violently
- inebriatedIntoxicated by alcohol
tipsy · liquid courage · beer goggles · drunk · three sheets to the wind · one too many · pickled · tanked · hammered · blotto · buzzed · stewed · smashed · blood alcohol level · soused · high · mob mentality · impaired
- drunk slangdrunk, wasted, hammered, smashed, plastered
- drunkennessdrunk, tipsy, buzzed, intoxicated, inebriated
- intoxicateddrunk, high, intoxicated, inebriated, wasted
- intoxicationdrunk, inebriated, intoxication, inebriation, drunkenness
under the influencesober
Free from intoxication
clean · straight · clearheaded · unimpaired · lucid
under the influencein control
Managing with authority
self-possessed · in one's right mind · independent · autonomous · self-directed
under, influence, influencer, influenced, influencing, uninfluenced, influencers, over-under