Antonyms for tipsy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : tip-see

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɪp si

sober

Definition of tipsy

Origin : 1570s, from tip (v.1); later associated with tipple. Tipsy-cake (1806) was cake saturated with wine or liquor.

adj inebriated

Example sentences :

Let him go and find carrots at a sou the bunch elsewhere, tipsy scoundrel that he is!
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

But never mind that now; don't get tipsy again, if you can help it, and that's all about it.
Extract from : « The Macdermots of Ballycloran » by Anthony Trollope

His tipsy companions at first assisted him with noisy cheers.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

He told this story of the tipsy wife: She sent her son for brush to heat her oven.
Extract from : « Whittier-land » by Samuel T. Pickard

The man talked like one tipsy, but I did not think it was with drink.
Extract from : « Kilgorman » by Talbot Baines Reed

At their feasts the Brethren ate like gluttons and drank till they were tipsy.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

They wasted their nights in tipsy revels and dances by the light of the moon.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

At last the clerk Vasia became so tipsy that he began to giggle and talk to his plate.
Extract from : « Virgin Soil » by Ivan S. Turgenev

I think he would; he did fire at me; but he was too tipsy to take aim.
Extract from : « Desk and Debit » by Oliver Optic

My room-mate was tipsy, but not enough so to make him anything more than silly.
Extract from : « Seek and Find » by Oliver Optic

Synonyms for tipsy

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