Difference between Inebriated and Intoxicated

What is the difference between Inebriated and Intoxicated?

Inebriated as an adjective is behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner. while Intoxicated as an adjective is stupefied by alcohol, drunk.

Inebriated

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Behaving as though affected by alcohol including exhilaration, and a dumbed or stupefied manner.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cause to be drunk; to intoxicate.

Intoxicated

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To stupefy by doping with chemical substances such as alcohol.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Stupefied by alcohol, drunk.Stupefied by any chemical substance.

We hope you now know whether to use Inebriated or Intoxicated in your sentence.

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