paralytic
adjective
[ parəˈlɪtɪk ]
• relating to paralysis.
• "the incidence of paralytic disease"
Similar:
paralysed,
disabled,
incapacitated,
dead,
numb,
benumbed,
powerless,
immobilized,
helpless,
useless,
• extremely drunk.
• "a leaving party which left everyone paralytic"
Similar:
drunk,
intoxicated,
inebriated,
drunken,
befuddled,
incapable,
tipsy,
the worse for drink,
under the influence,
maudlin,
blind drunk,
dead drunk,
rolling drunk,
roaring drunk,
(as) drunk as a lord,
(as) drunk as a skunk,
tight,
merry,
the worse for wear,
woozy,
pie-eyed,
two/three sheets to the wind,
under the table,
plastered,
smashed,
wrecked,
sloshed,
soused,
well oiled,
sozzled,
blotto,
blitzed,
canned,
stewed,
pickled,
tanked (up),
soaked,
bombed,
hammered,
blasted,
off one's face,
out of/off one's head,
out of one's skull,
wasted,
wired,
in one's cups,
reeling,
cock-eyed,
zonked,
guttered,
fuddled,
stinko,
ratted,
legless,
steaming,
bevvied,
Brahms and Liszt,
half cut,
out of it,
having had a skinful,
bladdered,
trolleyed,
well away,
squiffy,
tiddly,
out of one's box,
having had one over the eight,
cut,
steamed,
mullered,
slaughtered,
lashed,
fou,
loaded,
trashed,
crock,
juiced,
sauced,
squiffed,
swacked,
strung out,
liquored up,
out of one's gourd,
in the bag,
zoned,
ripped,
turnt,
full,
shickered,
shot,
grogged up,
as full as a goog,
inked,
munted,
lekker,
tired and emotional,
stoned,
lit up,
as tight as a tick,
half seas over,
paralytic
noun
• a person affected by paralysis.
• "I do not wish to live as a helpless paralytic"
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French paralytique, via Latin from Greek paralutikos ‘relating to paralysis’ (see paralysis).
