Drunk
Drunk adjective - Being under the influence of alcohol.
Merry and drunk are semantically related. in tight topic. In some cases you can use "Merry" instead an adjective "Drunk", when it comes to topics like intoxicated. informal substitute
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
- Mood Whiplash: The play switches from Alcestis's funeral and Admetus's bitter argument with his father to Admetus's friend Heracles, who is drunk and merry.
Source: Theatre / Alcestis -
Rise Kujikawa in Persona 4 has a drunk hic on the class trip, at the club, right before the merry friends play the King's Game.
Source: Alcohol Hic - Falstaff, a lazy fat drunk whose main purpose in the Henry IV trilogy was to show how dissipated Prince Hal really was, became so popular that (according to legend) Shakespeare was asked by Elizabeth I to write a comedy around him, which is how we got The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Source: Misaimed Fandom / Theatre
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