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crapulous

adjective/ˈkræpjʊləs/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister

Suffering the ill effects of, or given to, gross overindulgence in food or drink.

He woke crapulous and queasy after the interminable banquet.

Similar: intemperate, surfeited, dissipated

Origin: From Late Latin 'crapulosus', from Greek 'kraipale', drunken headache.

Topic: indulgence in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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