noun. One who suffers from an irresistible and insatiable craving for intoxicants.

Of or pertaining to dipsomania.

noun. One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.

noun. One with a morbid paroxysmal craving for alcohol; an alcoholic.

noun. A persistently drunken person; a drunkard.

noun. a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

"A self-indulgent rather unsocial habit-forming man may very easily become what is called a dipsomaniac, no doubt, but that is not the same thing as an inherited specific craving."

abstain  on the wagon  teetotal  temperance  

dipsomania  dipsomaniacal  

drunk  drunkard  inebriate  rummy  sot  

crankiness  feeble-mindedness  kleptomania  reveler  roysterer  

LSD user  acidhead  addict  alcoholic  alcoholic