dipsomaniacal

English

Adjective

dipsomaniacal (comparative more dipsomaniacal, superlative most dipsomaniacal)

1. Pertaining to or suffering from dipsomania.
   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 63:

     […] dividing his remaining energies between stints as a tennis pro at ranch-type resorts and then short-run productions at something called the Desert Beat Theater Project, the father, a dipsomaniacal tragedian progressively crippled by obsessions with death by spider-bite and by stage fright […]