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1. Relating to or of the nature of paralysis
   "paralytic symptoms";
   - paralytical
    
2. Affected with paralysis
   "My arm is paralytic!";
   - paralyzed [N. Amer], paralysed [Brit, Cdn]
    
3. [Brit] Very drunk
   "I had travelling money and got paralytic in the bar downstairs";
   - besotted [archaic], blind drunk, blotto, crocked [N. Amer], cockeyed, fuddled, loaded [N. Amer], pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet, bombed, steaming, tanked up, trashed, hammered, wasted, pickled, stonkered [Austral, NZ], juiced [N. Amer], three sheets to the wind, mullered [Brit], lit, swacked [N. Amer], out of it [Brit], blitzed, trolleyed [Brit], bladdered [Brit], stewed, liquored up [N. Amer], legless [Brit], stinko, fried [N. Amer], bevvied [Brit], drunk, pixillated, squiffed, half-seas-over [Brit]

1. A person suffering from paralysis

Derived forms: paralytics

See also: drunk, ill, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sick

Type of: handicapped person

Encyclopedia: Paralytic