English Explanatory Dictionary

drunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
  2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
  3. Elated or emboldened.
  4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
adv
  1. While drunk.
noun
  1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
  2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
  3. A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
  4. A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
  5. A drunken state.
verb
  1. past participle of drink
  2. simple past of drink

Pronunciation

drŭngk /dɹʌŋk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Pvanp7-drunk.wav en-us-drunk.ogg

Word forms

drunk drunker drunkest more drunk most drunk drunks

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.

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

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
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