DRUNK Synonyms: 177 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈdrəŋk

Definition of drunk next

as in drunken

being under the influence of alcohol several wedding guests who got a little drunk

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drunk

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noun

as in alcoholic

a person who makes a habit of getting drunk you can't trust anything that old drunk says

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as in spree

a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything

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drunk

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verb

variants or drank

past participle of drink

as in sipped

to swallow in liquid form the doctor wants her to drink lots of water before the examination

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as in boozed

to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages we're worried that she's started drinking again

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abstained

as in absorbed

to take in (something liquid) through small openings the hot surface of the porous rock drank water like a sponge

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Recent Examples of drunk

Adjective

Last year, a Delta pilot who showed up drunk before a flight was sentenced to 10 months in jail by a Scottish court. —

Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2025 Like, straight-up crazy, drunk wrestled in the middle of... —

Julia Moore, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025

Noun

Once all the gifts are opened and the hot chocolate drunk, there is nothing more fun, memorable, or STEM-y than getting on the floor with your kids and building a fort out of shipping boxes or a Rube Goldberg machine out of wrapping paper cylinders, packing tubes, and ribbon. —

Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024 Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who in 1991 mounted a tank to defend Russia's nascent democracy against a Communist Party coup, was dismissed as a drunk and a fool. —

Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

Verb

But now, the virus has been detected in at least 865 herds of cows across at least 16 states, as well as in raw (unpasteurized) milk sold in California and in domestic cats who drank raw milk. —

Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 Dec. 2024 A number of farm cats that drank raw milk or found infected birds got sick and died — alerting health officials that something was up. —

Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 24 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for drunk

Recent Examples of Synonyms for drunk

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Cori Clingman was arrested for alleged negligent manslaughter, homicide as a result of negligent driving and drunken driving and several other counts on Thursday, Jan. 23, per the Star-Tribune.

— Charna Flam, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Buckeyes faithful — scarlet-clad, drunken, frigid from the cold — were finally unshackled from all those losses to Michigan and all those unmet expectations.

— Justin Williams, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025