See libatious in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "humorous"
},
"expansion": "(humorous)",
"name": "q"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "libation<t:(humorous) alcoholic beverage>",
"3": "-ous"
},
"expansion": "libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more libatious",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most libatious",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "libacious",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "libatious (comparative more libatious, superlative most libatious)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ous",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
135,
144
]
],
"ref": "1892, Amanda M. Douglas, The Heirs of Bradley House, page 319:",
"text": "The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe, often on their cottage doorsteps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
68,
77
]
],
"ref": "1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer:",
"text": "Mama said he'd be a failure\nLive down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah\nLibacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
23
]
],
"ref": "2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:",
"text": "[…] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test. She failed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
39,
48
]
],
"ref": "2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38:",
"text": "Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts."
],
"id": "en-libatious-en-adj-Mw8lf0mq",
"links": [
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"alcohol",
"alcohol"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(humorous) Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "boozy"
}
],
"tags": [
"humorous"
]
}
],
"word": "libatious"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "humorous"
},
"expansion": "(humorous)",
"name": "q"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "libation<t:(humorous) alcoholic beverage>",
"3": "-ous"
},
"expansion": "libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous",
"name": "af"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From libation (“(humorous) alcoholic beverage”) + -ous.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "more libatious",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most libatious",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
},
{
"form": "libacious",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "libatious (comparative more libatious, superlative most libatious)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English humorous terms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ous",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
135,
144
]
],
"ref": "1892, Amanda M. Douglas, The Heirs of Bradley House, page 319:",
"text": "The saloons flourish, though desperate drunkenness is not so frequent as in the larger cities. It is the sottish, unthinking, maudlin, libacious sort, who drink their beer and sit in muddled contemplation of their pipe, often on their cottage doorsteps.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
68,
77
]
],
"ref": "1983, Marc Jordan and John Capek, “American Pop”, in Bodies and Souls, performed by The Manhattan Transfer:",
"text": "Mama said he'd be a failure\nLive down on the Bowery somewhere, yeah\nLibacious schoolboy with that slicked back hair",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
14,
23
]
],
"ref": "2016, Iain Spragg, “Sister Caught in the Act”, in Teachers' Strangest Tales:",
"text": "[…] asked our libatious bride of Christ to take a sobriety test. She failed.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
39,
48
]
],
"ref": "2017, Michael Wertheimer, Max Wertheimer and Gestalt Theory, page 38:",
"text": "Social life among students was lively, libatious, and often irreverent.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts."
],
"links": [
[
"tendency",
"tendency"
],
[
"alcohol",
"alcohol"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(humorous) Having a tendency to drink alcohol, especially in large amounts."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "boozy"
}
],
"tags": [
"humorous"
]
}
],
"word": "libatious"
}
Download raw JSONL data for libatious meaning in English (2.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-10-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-10-21 using wiktextract (bd88cf0 and 0a198a9). 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.