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

1. A person suffering from paralysis
   "The paralytic relied on a wheelchair for mobility"

Derived forms: paralytics

See also: drunk, gone, ill, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, ripped [informal], sick, skunked [informal]

Type of: handicapped person

Encyclopedia: Paralytic