drunk
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- intoxicated, drunken, inebriated, legless (informal), merry (Brit. informal), plastered (slang), tipsy, under the influence (informal)
[noun]
Synonyms:
- drunkard, alcoholic, boozer (informal), inebriate, lush (slang), wino (informal)

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Antonyms: sober
Contrasted words: bone-dry, dry
Related Idioms: roaring drunk
Related Words: drinking, drinky

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English Thesaurus: drunk, tipsy/merry, pissed, intoxicated, paralytic/legless, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. drunk¹ /drʌŋk/
the past participle of drink

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II. drunk² S3 adjective
[Word Family: noun: drink, drinker, drinking, drunk, drunkenness; adjective: drunk, drunken; verb: drink; adverb: drunkenly]

1. [not before noun] unable to control your behaviour, speech etc because you have drunk too much alcohol Antonym : sober:
You’re drunk.
David would get drunk and I would have to take him home and put him to bed.
drunk on
He was drunk on beer and whisky.
blind drunk British English (=very drunk)
All she wants to do is get blind drunk.
drunk as a lord (also drunk as a skunk) (=very drunk)
He turned up one morning, drunk as a lord.

2. being drunk and disorderly law the crime of behaving in a violent noisy way in a public place when you are drunk

3. drunk on/with something so excited by a feeling that you behave in a strange way:
drunk with happiness
⇒ punch-drunk, ⇒ roaring drunk at roaring(5)

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III. drunk³ (also drunk‧ard /ˈdrʌŋkəd $ -ərd/) noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: drink, drinker, drinking, drunk, drunkenness; adjective: drunk, drunken; verb: drink; adverb: drunkenly]
someone who is drunk or often gets drunk ⇒ alcoholic

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

drunk
adj.
VERBS be, feel, look, sound I was beginning to feel very drunk.
get Harry went out and got drunk last night.
get sb, make sb Andrew decided to try and get Sharon drunk. The wine had made him drunk.
ADV. blind, completely, extremely, hideously, hopelessly, horribly, really, roaring, very He came home blind drunk, as usual.
almost (often figurative) She was almost drunk with all these new impressions.
fairly, half, a little, pretty, quite, rather, slightly He was still half drunk.
PREP. with (figurative) drunk with fatigue

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

drunk [not usually before noun] having drunk too much alcohol so that your behaviour and mental processes are affected:
Gary was too drunk to remember what had happened that night.
I just hope they don’t get drunk and start fighting.
drunk driving
The police are going to crack down on drunk drivers.
tipsy/merry [not before noun] slightly drunk:
After the second glass of wine I was feeling a little tipsy.
pissed [not usually before noun] British English informal drunk – this word is very common in spoken British English, but it is not polite:
Don’t listen to him – he’s pissed.
intoxicated [not before noun] formal drunk:
He was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
paralytic/legless [not before noun] British English informal extremely drunk:
Don’t give Dave any more to drink -- he’s already legless.
They became totally paralytic and abusive.
drunken [only before noun] especially written used to describe someone who is drunk or their behaviour. Drunken is mainly used in written English and is always used before a noun. Don’t say ‘he is drunken’. Say he is drunk:
A drunken man was found lying outside a shop door.
We found him lying by the roadside in a drunken stupor (=almost unconscious as a result of being drunk).

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