1
a
: having the faculties impaired by alcohol
b
: having a level of alcohol in the blood that exceeds a maximum prescribed by law
legally drunk
2
: dominated by an intense feeling
drunk with rage
3
: relating to, caused by, or characterized by intoxication : drunken
drunk driving
1
: a period of drinking to intoxication or of being intoxicated
a 2-day drunk
2
: one who is drunk
especially
: drunkard
Synonyms
Adjective
- besotted
- blasted [slang]
- blind
- blitzed [slang]
- blotto [slang]
- bombed
- boozy
- canned [slang]
- cockeyed
- crocked
- drunken
- fried
- gassed
- hammered [slang]
- high
- impaired
- inebriate
- inebriated
- intoxicated
- juiced [slang]
- lit
- lit up
- loaded [slang]
- looped
- oiled [slang]
- pickled
- pie-eyed
- plastered
- potted [slang]
- ripped [slang]
- sloshed [slang]
- smashed [slang]
- sottish
- soused
- sozzled
- squiffed
- squiffy
- stewed
- stiff
- stinking [slang]
- stoned
- tanked [slang]
- tiddly [chiefly British]
- tight
- tipsy
- wasted [slang]
- wet
- wiped out [slang]
Noun
Examples of drunk in a Sentence
Adjective
I don't like being around drunk people.
She was so drunk that she could barely walk.
I was drunk and couldn't think straight.
We got drunk on wine.
Noun
you can't trust anything that old drunk says
after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything
Recent Examples on the Web
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
Although none of us had been drinking that night, all of us felt slightly drunk.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Chidester, 66, of Newport, is accused of driving drunk and plowing her SUV into a birthday party Saturday at the club in Newport.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2024
One man got drunk and turned himself into the jail to avoid paying unaffordable probation fees in LaPorte County, where revenue from electronic monitoring is more than Marion County despite having one-eighth the population.
—Isabelle Kause, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2024
Ways to drink soju Soju is mostly drunk neat, by the full or half shot.
—Irene Yoo, Bon Appétit, 16 Apr. 2024
With a counter team known for dishing out fiery insults to an often drunk late-night (and even daytime) crowd, Wiener’s Circle has all the classic Chicago hot dog stand staples: Chicago dogs, char cheddar burgers, char Polish, cheddar fries, and more.
—Ari Bendersky, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
Of them, Peterson has already pleaded guilty, while Rodriguez-Jalapa’s legal problems have only gotten worse; he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and threatening Clayton officers earlier this year.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, back in the ER, Griffith (Alexis Floyd) and Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) have lost one of the drunk med students and have to scour the hospital to find him before they are both fired.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
The series documents Chuck’s dramatic shift from a sober man looking to help other addicts to a destructive drunk who required women to shave their heads, and married couples to break up and take new partners.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
There’s a local mine polluting the water, skyrocketing stillbirths, a bar fight where a drunk says the town wouldn’t even exist without the mine.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
With LaPierre’s encouragement and assistance, tens of thousands of dimwits, drunks, rage-a-holics, paranoids, domestic abusers and everyday incompetents have been armed and sent into America’s streets, ballparks, schools, churches and bars.
—Francis Wilkinson, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
Frank continued to get upset (and a little drunk) every August 6, the day Hiroshima was bombed.
—Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
The pair drives around Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital, with their victim’s dead body in the drunk after Zoe accidentally killed him.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
Sure, there were the local drunks, the teenage hooligans who tortured stray cats, but even these wayward bees had a place in the hive.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
But as the little boy grows older, the dad becomes more of a drunk.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
Adjective
Besse said Calderon was arrested and convicted in 2005 for driving drunk, leading police on a chase, and killing another person in the process.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
Although none of us had been drinking that night, all of us felt slightly drunk.
—Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2024
Chidester, 66, of Newport, is accused of driving drunk and plowing her SUV into a birthday party Saturday at the club in Newport.
—Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2024
One man got drunk and turned himself into the jail to avoid paying unaffordable probation fees in LaPorte County, where revenue from electronic monitoring is more than Marion County despite having one-eighth the population.
—Isabelle Kause, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2024
Ways to drink soju Soju is mostly drunk neat, by the full or half shot.
—Irene Yoo, Bon Appétit, 16 Apr. 2024
With a counter team known for dishing out fiery insults to an often drunk late-night (and even daytime) crowd, Wiener’s Circle has all the classic Chicago hot dog stand staples: Chicago dogs, char cheddar burgers, char Polish, cheddar fries, and more.
—Ari Bendersky, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2024
Of them, Peterson has already pleaded guilty, while Rodriguez-Jalapa’s legal problems have only gotten worse; he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk and threatening Clayton officers earlier this year.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
Meanwhile, back in the ER, Griffith (Alexis Floyd) and Kwan (Harry Shum Jr.) have lost one of the drunk med students and have to scour the hospital to find him before they are both fired.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 12 Apr. 2024
Noun
His own got off to a rocky start; according to Perry, his father, Coy Luther II, was a violent drunk who abused his mother.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
The series documents Chuck’s dramatic shift from a sober man looking to help other addicts to a destructive drunk who required women to shave their heads, and married couples to break up and take new partners.
—Addie Morfoot, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
There’s a local mine polluting the water, skyrocketing stillbirths, a bar fight where a drunk says the town wouldn’t even exist without the mine.
—Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
With LaPierre’s encouragement and assistance, tens of thousands of dimwits, drunks, rage-a-holics, paranoids, domestic abusers and everyday incompetents have been armed and sent into America’s streets, ballparks, schools, churches and bars.
—Francis Wilkinson, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2024
Frank continued to get upset (and a little drunk) every August 6, the day Hiroshima was bombed.
—Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
The pair drives around Port-au-Prince, the country’s capital, with their victim’s dead body in the drunk after Zoe accidentally killed him.
—Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 24 Jan. 2024
Sure, there were the local drunks, the teenage hooligans who tortured stray cats, but even these wayward bees had a place in the hive.
—Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
But as the little boy grows older, the dad becomes more of a drunk.
—Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2024
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“Drunk.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drunk. Accessed 2 May. 2024.
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drunk
1 of 3past participle of drink
drunk
2 of 3 adjective1
: having consumed alcohol to the point that normal thinking or acting becomes difficult or impossible
2
: controlled by some feeling as if under the influence of alcohol
drunk with power
3
a
b
: occurring while drunk
drunk driving
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