drunkenadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈdrʌŋ.kən/us/ˈdrʌŋ.kən/disapprovingA drunken person is (often) under the influence of alcohol:
She was convicted of murdering her drunken and allegedly violent husband.
The square filled up with drunken baseball fans.
used to describe a situation in which a lot of alcohol has been drunk:
a drunken brawl
He came home and fell into a drunken stupor (= sleep).
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Drunkenness & sobriety
- a drop too much (to drink) idiom
- alcoholic
- alcoholism
- battered
- be as high as a kite idiom
- beer goggles
- binge drinking
- blasted
- bombed
- inebriated
- influence
- intoxicate
- intoxicated
- intoxicating
- sober (sb) up
- sobriety
- sot
- soused
- sozzled
- whacked
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drunkenly
adverb uk/ˈdrʌŋ.kən.li/us/ˈdrʌŋ.kən.li/
He staggered drunkenly toward the door.
drunkenness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈdrʌŋ.kən.nəs/us/ˈdrʌŋ.kən.nəs/