plastered

adjective

plas·​tered ˈpla-stərd 

slang

: drunk, intoxicated

Move over, children. Go eat your mini eggs somewhere else as your auntie wants to get plastered.

—Mel Ramsay

… oh we were plastered, we barely knew what we were doing …

—Dave Eggers

College boys could get totally plastered, and the worst that would happen to them would be hangovers and missed morning classes.

—Katha Pollitt

Synonyms

• besotted
• blasted [slang]
• blind
• blitzed [slang]
• blotto [slang]
• bombed
• boozy
• canned [slang]
• cockeyed
• crocked
• drunk
• drunken
• fried
• gassed
• hammered [slang]
• high
• impaired
• inebriate
• inebriated
• intoxicated
• juiced [slang]
• lit
• lit up
• loaded [slang]
• looped
• oiled [slang]
• pickled
• pie-eyed
• potted [slang]
• ripped [slang]
• sloshed [slang]
• smashed [slang]
• sottish
• soused
• sozzled
• squiffed
• squiffy
• stewed
• stiff
• stinking [slang]
• stoned
• tanked [slang]
• tiddly [chiefly British]
• tight
• tipsy
• wasted [slang]
• wet
• wiped out [slang]

Examples of plastered in a Sentence

I got totally plastered at the party.

I don't believe it: you're totally plastered at your own dinner party.

Recent Examples on the Web

Their plastered smiles and scripted pleasantries represented a great loss of emotional freedom and a new level of managerial control. —TIME, 24 Oct. 2023

And the room, van Gogh’s bedroom in Arles, with its rough-hewn bed frame and the restful violet color of the plastered walls. —David Lyman, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2022

The wide kitchen windowsill holds an assortment of Santa Clauses, and snow people find a home in the built-in, plastered niche in the dining room. —oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022

The front door opens to living and dining rooms with high ceilings, which have been re-plastered. —oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above