drunk

Meaning

Adj

1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
2. (derogatory) Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
3. (usually) Elated or emboldened.
4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Adv

While drunk.

Noun

1. One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
2. A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
3. A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
4. A drunken state.

Verb

1. (form-of, participle, past) past participle of drink
2. (Southern-US, form-of, past) simple past of drink

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drink

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Synonyms

intoxicated

drunkard

drunken

alcoholic

boozer

inebriate

tipsy

inebriated

high

heavy drinker

drunkenly

dizzy

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tight

be intoxicated

lush

exhilarated

be drunken

under the influence

full

sozzled

sloshed

sot

plastered

be tipsy

drunken person

blissful

drugged

excited

canned

ebrious

toper

dip

tanked up

tanked

tippler

wino

giddy

get drunk

crocked

groggy

oblivious

happy

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potted

rummy

squiffy

faint

consumed

eaten

cockeyed

blitzed

Translations

borracho

ubriaco

ivre

betrunken

ebrio

ebbro

dronken

besoffen

bêbado

beschonken

zat

soûl

ivrogne

μεθυσμένος

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɹʌŋk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: drunke

Inherited from Old English: druncen

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: dronken

Cognate with Western Frisian: dronken

Cognate with Dutch: dronken

Cognate with German: trunken

Cognate with Swedish: drucken

Cognate with Icelandic: drukkinn

In summary

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.