Adjective: crapulous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more crapulous |
| Superlative | most crapulous |
Sample Sentences
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Now I hear that you've dispensed with Roger's services, presumably to throw your lot in with my brother and his gang of crapulous shills. [2021, “Retired Janitors of Idaho” (21:47 from the start), in Succession, season 3, episode 5, spoken by Ewan Roy (James Cromwell):]
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By the time Swelter's monologue was dragging to its crapulous close, Mr. Flay was pacing onwards […] [1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:]
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He was in a crapulous state of booze, too, and demanded another thirty shillings. [1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 71:]
Adjectives inflected like crapulous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek κραιπᾰ́λη (kraipắlē)der.
3. Latin crāpula
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
5. Proto-Indo-European *-os
6. Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
7. Proto-Italic *-ŏ̄dsos?
8. Old Latin -ōssus
9. Latin -ōsus
10. Latin crāpulōsusder.
11. Middle English crapulous
12. English crapulous
13. From late Middle English crapulous, from Latin crapulosus (“drunken”), from crapula (“intoxication”), from Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “intoxication, hangover”). Compare French crapuleux. See: Latin Adjectives '
crapulosus', French Adjectives '
crapuleux'.