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Antonyms for three sheets to the wind
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : sheet |
Phonetic Transcription : ʃit |
Definition of three sheets to the wind
Origin :- Old English sciete (West Saxon), scete (Mercian) "cloth, covering, towel, shroud," from Proto-Germanic *skautjon-, from *skauta- "project" (cf. Old Norse skaut, Gothic skauts "seam, hem of a garment;" Dutch schoot; German Schoß "bosom, lap"), from PIE root *skeud- "to shoot, chase, throw" (see shoot (v.)).
- Sense of "piece of paper" first recorded c.1500; that of "any broad, flat surface" (of metal, open water, etc.) is from 1590s. Of falling rain from 1690s. Meaning "a newspaper" is first recorded 1749. Sheet lightning is attested from 1794; sheet music is from 1857. Between the sheets "in bed" (usually with sexual overtones) is attested from 1590s; to be white as a sheet is from 1751. The first element in sheet-anchor (late 15c.) appears to be a different word, of unknown origin.
- As in intoxicated : adj drunk
- As in plastered : adj drunk
- As in soused : adj drunk
- As in zonked : adj drunk, intoxicated; stunned
- As in bombed : adj drunk
- As in boozed : adj drunk
- As in boozy : adj drunk
- As in crapulent : adj drunk
- As in crapulous : adj drunk
- As in crocked : adj drunk
- As in looped : adj drunk
- As in pickled : adj drunk
- As in potted : adj drunk
- As in sloshed : adj drunk
- As in stewed : adj drunk
- As in stinko : adj drunk
- As in drunk : adj intoxicated by alcohol
Synonyms for three sheets to the wind
- amazed
- astonished
- bashed
- befuddled
- besotted
- blind
- blitzed
- bombed
- boozed
- boozed up
- buzzed
- crapulent
- crapulous
- crocked
- dazed
- dead drunk
- dead to the world
- drinking
- drunk as a skunk
- drunken
- dumbfounded
- faced
- feeling good
- feeling no pain
- flushed
- flying
- fried
- fuddled
- glazed
- gone
- groggy
- half in the bag
- half-crocked
- half-seas over
- high
- high as a kite
- hooched up
- in
- in one's cups
- inebriate
- inebriated
- intoxicated
- juiced
- laced
- liquored up
- lit
- loaded
- looped
- lush
- muddled
- pickled
- pissed
- plastered
- polluted
- potted
- sauced
- schnockered
- seeing double
- shit-faced
- sloppy
- sloshed
- smashed
- sodden
- soused
- stewed
- stoned
- tanked
- three sheets to the wind
- thunderstruck
- tied one on
- tight
- tipsy
- totaled
- trashed
- under the influence
- under the table
- unsober
- wasted
- woozy
- zonked
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