stoned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed.
The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.
Base: stone
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more stoned
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stoned
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing stones.
pos: adj
gloss: Having had the stones removed.
pos: adj
gloss: Drunk; intoxicated by alcohol.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
slang
examples: STONED: drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world.
'He could be a mean drunk,' said saxophonist Artie Drelinger. '[…] Booze was his priority, and when he was stoned he could be a son of a bitch.'
gloss: High on drugs, especially cannabis.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: We got stoned and ate four bags of potato chips.
Riccio nodded toward a boy across the floor and said, “See that kid? He’s on dope.” The boy was standing against a wall, staring vacantly at the dancers, his face fixed in a gentle, faraway smile. Every few seconds, he would wipe his nose with the back of his hand.
“Man, that Jo-Jo!” Benny said. “He’s stoned all the time.”
“What’s he on—horse?” Riccio asked, meaning heroin.
“Who knows with that creep?” Benny said. I asked Benny if any special kind of boy went in for dope.
“The creeps,” he said. “You know, the goofballs.” He searched for a word. “The weak kids. Like Jo-Jo. There ain’t nothing the guys can’t do to him. Last week, we took his pants off and made him run right in the middle of the street without them.”
Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars / Out here we is stoned, immaculate
And me, I'm flying in my taxi / Taking tips, and getting stoned / I go flying so high, when I'm stoned
Stoned in the mall the kids play / And in this way wish away each day
"Hey babe. Claire and her mom got way too stoned and a random borzoi wandered into the house and we need an adult. ... Yeah that's pretty much how I expected today to go too."
gloss: Exhilarated; intoxicated by something (such as love) other than drugs or alcohol.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: "I am stoned on Jesus! He turns me on and gives me something drugs never could!"
I had told them my sailing plans—a few voyages and then Palmyra—but learned almost nothing about them except they were stoned on life. They were so in love with each other and so enamored with their six-month-old baby, […]
Perhaps I even looked stoned on life with that ever-present smile on my face […]
Synonyms: baked
blazed
blitzed
blown
chemically impaired
chopped
cut
drugged
drugged-out
fuckered up
fried
gassed
geeked
high
high as a kite
hepped up
hopped up
monged
munted
trolleyed
toasted
lifted
lit
off one's box
out of one's box
reefed
spaced-out
stoned
up there
wasted
whacked
zooted
zorched
Antonyms: abstemious
clean
clearheaded
on the wagon
sober
sober as a judge
teetotal
Related words: recreational drug
Derived words: stoned ape theory
stonedly
stonedness
unstoned
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