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sottish

adjective
sot·​tish | \ ˈsä-tish How to pronounce sottish (audio) \

Definition of sottish

: resembling a sot : drunken also : doltish, stupid
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Other Words from sottish

sottishly adverb
sottishness noun

Synonyms & Antonyms for sottish

Synonyms

besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, 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], 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

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Examples of sottish in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web

 So long as those parties retained their strength and credibility, the loud-mouthery of its sottish president could be winced at, but need not inspire much worry. — David Frum, The Atlantic, "The New Test to Democracy in the Czech Republic," 23 Oct. 2017

First Known Use of sottish

1583, in the meaning defined above

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