being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcohol; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
overcome or dominated by a strong feeling or emotion: drunk with power; drunk with joy.
pertaining to or caused by intoxication or intoxicated persons; drunken: The semester before I dropped out was just a blur of drunk hookups and missed classes.
noun
an intoxicated person: A couple of rude, grabby drunks ruined the parade for her.
Disparaging and Offensive. a habitual drinker of alcohol who is frequently intoxicated: My dad was a drunk who never held a steady job.
a spree; drinking party: We rolled back into town after a four-day drunk, looking like hell.
verb
past participle and nonstandard simple past tense of drink.
Origin of drunk
First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English drunken, Old English druncen, past participle of drincan “to swallow liquid, drink”; see origin at drink
SYNONYMS FOR drunk
1 drunken, inebriated.
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ANTONYMS FOR drunk
1, 3 sober.
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usage note for drunk
See drink.
words often confused with drunk
Both drunk and drunken are used as modifiers before nouns naming persons: a drunk customer; a drunken merrymaker. Only drunk occurs after a linking verb: He was not drunk, just jovial. The actor was drunk with success. The modifier drunk in legal language describes a person whose blood contains more than the legally allowed percentage of alcohol: Drunk drivers go to jail. Drunken, not drunk, is almost always the form used with nouns that do not name persons: drunken arrogance; a drunken free-for-all. In such uses it normally has the sense “pertaining to, caused by, or marked by intoxication.” Drunken is also idiomatic in such expressions as drunken bum or drunken sailor.
OTHER WORDS FROM drunk
half-drunk,adjectiveun·drunk,adjective
Words nearby drunk
drumstick, drumstick finger, drum table, drum up, drung, drunk, drunkard, drunkard's chair, drunk as a lord, drunkathon, drunk dial
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