drunk
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken,
getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.
Inflected forms:
form: drunker
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: drunkest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more drunk
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most drunk
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: drunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
pos: adj
examples: So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days, until it became strong wine; and every day I used to drink of it, to comfort and sustain me under my fatigues with that from froward and obstinate fiend; and as often as I drank myself drunk, I forgot my troubles and took new heart.
"What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
gloss: Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
gloss: Elated or emboldened.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
drunk with recent prosperity
gloss: Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
pos: adj
examples: I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
gloss: While drunk.
pos: adv
examples: He was arrested for driving drunk.
gloss: One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
pos: noun
examples: She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
gloss: A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
pos: noun
examples: Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
gloss: A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
pos: noun
examples: He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
gloss: A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
pos: noun
examples: Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…].
Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks. Usually he got plastered and misplaced his keys […] and bellowed obscenities into our shared hallway.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it. Anyone who wants to tag along is more than welcome.
gloss: A drunken state.
pos: noun
examples: Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!
Synonyms: Adrian Quist
adrip
aled up
all mops and brooms
arseholed
a sheet in the wind
a sheet in the wind's eye
bedrunken
befuddled
beliquored
besotted
besotten
bevvied
bibacious
bibulous
binned
bingoed
bladdered
blasted
blewed
blind
blind drunk
blitzed
blocked
blootered
blottoed
blue
bollocksed
bombed
bosky
bottled
Brahms
Brahms and Liszt
budgy
bungalowed
bungfu
burlin'
canned
clobbered
corned
cocked
cockeyed
crapulous
crocked
cunted
cup-shot
cup-shotten
cut
dead drunk
destroyed
disguised
drunk
drunk as a piper
drunked up
drunken
ebriated
ebriose
elephant's
elephant's trunk
elevated
faced
fap
fershnickered
flooey
floored
flush
flushed
flustered
fluted
fluthered
feeling no pain
fou
four sheets in the wind
fresh
fried
frosted
fuckered up
fuckfaced
fuddled
full
fuzzy-headed
fuzzy-minded
gassed
gattered
gee-eyed
gesuip
ginned
gished
glorious
groggified
groggy
half polluted
half cut
half lit
half seas over
hammered
have drink taken
have the sun in one's eyes
hazed
high as a Georgia pine
high as a kite
high
hog-whimpering
honkers
hooched up
hooted
hoovered
hosed
how came you so
impaired
in liquor
in one's altitudes
in one's cups
in the bag
in the drink
inebriate
inebriated
inebrious
insober
insobrietous
inter pocula
jaked
jarred
juiced
juiced up
kaylied
kettled
kisky
lamped
langered
langers
larruped
lash
lashed
lathered
legless
liquored up
liquory
lit
loaded
looped
loopy
loose
lubed
lubed up
lubricated
lushed
mabok
mad with it
maggot
maggoted
mashed
maudlin
medicated
messed up
monged
mortal
mortalled
Mozart and Liszt
muddled
muggy
mullered
munted
muzzy
MWI
nappy
newted
nimptopsical
obfuscated
obliviated
off one's box
off one's head
off one's tits
oiled
oiled up
Oliver
Oliver Twist
on the ran tan
ossified
out of it
out of one's box
out of one's face
out of one's head
out of sight
overcome
overrefreshed
overtaken
paralytic
parlatic
pickled
pie-eyed
pixilated
plastered
ploughed
plowed
polluted
potshot
potted
pounded
primed
puggled
quisby
raddled
rat-arsed
ratted
razzled
ripe
ripped
rolling
rubbered
sauced
sauced up
scammered
schloshed
schnockered
screwed
scuttered
sewed up
shedded
shellacked
shicker
shickered
shitty
skunked
slammed
slarmied
slizzard
sloppy drunk
sloshed
smashed
snockered
snookered
snozzled
snuffy
soaken
sodden
soshed
sotted
souped-up
soused
sozzled
sozzly
spanceled
spannered
spiffed
splashed
spongy
sprung
squiffed
steamboats
stewed
stinking
stinko
stoated
stoned
stonkered
stotious
strut
swacked
tanked
tanked up
temulent
temulentive
three sheets in the wind
three sheets to the wind
throwed
tight as a tick
tight
tilted
tippled
tired and emotional
toasted
top-heavy
top-heavy with drink
toping
trashed
tuned
twatfaced
twisted
wastey
wazzed
wazzocked
well-oiled
wellied
whittled
withered
wobbly
woozy
worse for liquor
worse for wear
wrecked
zoned
zonked
zooted
zorched
zotzed
Antonyms: abstemious
clean
clearheaded
on the wagon
sober
sober as a judge
teetotal
Related words: shake a cloth in the wind
be the worse for drink
hang one on
tie one on
under the influence
Like having endured violence
Impaired
askew
have a brick in one's hat
spancelled
Incapacitated
drunkard
drunkenness
alcoholic
alcoholic beverage
broken
Derived words: appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober
blind drunk
cock-drunk
crunk
cumdrunk
dead drunk
dribbling drunk
driving drunk
drunchies
drungry
drunkalogue
drunk and disorderly
drunkard
drunk as a boiled owl
drunk as a cunt
drunk as a fiddler
drunk as a fiddler's bitch
drunk as a lord
drunk as an owl
drunk as a piper
drunk as a skunk
drunk as a sow
drunk as a wheelbarrow
drunk as Chloe
drunk as David's sow
drunk dial
drunk driver
drunk driving
drunk-driving
drunken
drunkenness
drunkery
drunkie
drunkish
drunkle
drunklike
drunkly
drunkness
drunkometer
drunkorexia
drunkover
drunkpost
Drunksville
drunk tank
drunk text
drunk words are sober thoughts
drunky
fox-drunk
get drunk
milk-drunk
perma-drunk
permadrunk
pissed drunk
punch-drunk
punch drunk
punch drunk syndrome
roaring drunk
semidrunk
sleep-drunk
sloppy drunk
stale drunk
stumble-drunk
stupid drunk
undrunk
welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk
whistle-drunk
cheap drunk
dry drunk
expensive drunk
good drunk
happy drunk
mean drunk
sad drunk
town drunk
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