See sad drunk on Wiktionary
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "sad drunks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sad drunk (plural sad drunks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "good drunk"
},
{
"word": "happy drunk"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Drinking",
"orig": "en:Drinking",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Sadness",
"orig": "en:Sadness",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
115
]
],
"ref": "1987, Andrew M. Greeley, chapter 2, in Patience of a Saint, Warner Books, page 16:",
"text": "What the hell is happening to me? They are looking at me like I’m drunk, but I’m either a mean drunk or a sad drunk, never a happy drunk. A happy Red Kane is impossible.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
58
]
],
"ref": "2016, Lisa Scottoline, chapter 11, in Damaged, St. Martin's Press, page 137:",
"text": "Mary sighed inwardly. She hadn’t known she was a sad drunk, until now. Maybe the horrible day was catching up with her. “Natalia, can I get more champagne?”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
53
]
],
"ref": "2020, Tarryn Fisher, chapter 19, in The Wrong Family, Graydon House Books, page 119:",
"text": "It was worse drunk than sober. Winnie was a sad drunk, a dark drunk; she thought of bad things when there was alcohol in her.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is gloomy or depressed when intoxicated, unable to retain reasonable control of their mental and emotional faculties."
],
"id": "en-sad_drunk-en-noun-RM~sz-4u",
"links": [
[
"gloomy",
"gloomy"
],
[
"depressed",
"depressed"
],
[
"intoxicated",
"intoxicated"
],
[
"mental",
"mental"
],
[
"emotional",
"emotional"
],
[
"faculties",
"faculty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) A person who is gloomy or depressed when intoxicated, unable to retain reasonable control of their mental and emotional faculties."
],
"related": [
{
"word": "hold one's liquor"
}
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "sad drunk"
}
{
"forms": [
{
"form": "sad drunks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "sad drunk (plural sad drunks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "hold one's liquor"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "good drunk"
},
{
"word": "happy drunk"
}
],
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English idioms",
"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Drinking",
"en:Sadness"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
115
]
],
"ref": "1987, Andrew M. Greeley, chapter 2, in Patience of a Saint, Warner Books, page 16:",
"text": "What the hell is happening to me? They are looking at me like I’m drunk, but I’m either a mean drunk or a sad drunk, never a happy drunk. A happy Red Kane is impossible.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
49,
58
]
],
"ref": "2016, Lisa Scottoline, chapter 11, in Damaged, St. Martin's Press, page 137:",
"text": "Mary sighed inwardly. She hadn’t known she was a sad drunk, until now. Maybe the horrible day was catching up with her. “Natalia, can I get more champagne?”",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
44,
53
]
],
"ref": "2020, Tarryn Fisher, chapter 19, in The Wrong Family, Graydon House Books, page 119:",
"text": "It was worse drunk than sober. Winnie was a sad drunk, a dark drunk; she thought of bad things when there was alcohol in her.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A person who is gloomy or depressed when intoxicated, unable to retain reasonable control of their mental and emotional faculties."
],
"links": [
[
"gloomy",
"gloomy"
],
[
"depressed",
"depressed"
],
[
"intoxicated",
"intoxicated"
],
[
"mental",
"mental"
],
[
"emotional",
"emotional"
],
[
"faculties",
"faculty"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) A person who is gloomy or depressed when intoxicated, unable to retain reasonable control of their mental and emotional faculties."
],
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
]
}
],
"word": "sad drunk"
}
Download raw JSONL data for sad drunk meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.