drunk

Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

Adjective

  1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
    • 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...
    • "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!" - 2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013:
  2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
  3. Elated or emboldened.
    • Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
    • drunk with recent prosperity - 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green,...
  4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
    • I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. - 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:42:

Origin

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.

Forms

drunker drunkest

Synonyms

boozy sottish wet tipsy buzzed 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

Antonyms

abstemious clean clearheaded on the wagon sober sober as a judge teetotal

Hypernyms

chemically inconvenienced intoxicate intoxicated

Hyponyms

Nearly drunk potulent Mildly drunk buzzed corny drunkish ebrious flashy lushy mellow merry moppy muddy ree screwy semidrunk slewed slued squiffy swipey tiddled tiddly tozy-mozy Very drunk

Related

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

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

Adverb

  1. While drunk.
    • He was arrested for driving drunk.

    Hypernyms: under the influence

Forms

more drunk most drunk

Noun

  1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
    • She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to. - 2025 November 26, Howard Johnston, “Top 10: Influential ministers: Barbara Castle 1965-68”, in RAIL, number...
  2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
    • Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire. - 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10:

    Synonyms: alcoholic drunkard pisshead piss artist sot alco alkie bacchanal bacchant barfly bibber booze artist boozehound boozer borachio bouser carouser cupster dipso dipsomaniac drinker drunk fuddlecap fuddler

  3. A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
    • He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
  4. A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
    • Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas. - 1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4:
    • I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…]. - 1924 July 5 [1923 August 5], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Sixth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing,...
    • 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....
  5. A drunken state.
    • 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! - 2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood,...

Forms

drunks

Derived

cheap drunk dry drunk expensive drunk good drunk happy drunk mean drunk sad drunk town drunk

Verb

  1. past participle of drink
  2. simple past of drink