drunk

/dɹʌŋk/

Etymology From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz (“drunk; drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian dronken, West Frisian dronken, Dutch dronken, gedronken, German Low German drunken, bedrunken, German trunken, getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.

Synonyms

300 terms

boozy, sottish, wet, tipsy, buzzed, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

abstemious, clean, clearheaded, on the wagon, sober, sober as a judge, teetotal

Derived terms

66 terms

appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, blind drunk, cock-drunk, crunk, cumdrunk, dead drunk, dribbling drunk, driving drunk, drunchies, drungry, drunkalogue, drunk and disorderly, drunkard, drunk as a boiled owl, drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as an owl, drunk as a piper, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as Chloe, drunk as David's sow, drunk dial, drunk driver, drunk driving, drunk-driving, drunken, drunkenness, drunkery, drunkie, drunkish, drunkle, drunklike, drunkly, drunkness, drunkometer, drunkorexia, drunkover, drunkpost, Drunksville, drunk tank, drunk text, drunk words are sober thoughts, drunky, fox-drunk, get drunk, milk-drunk, perma-drunk, permadrunk, pissed drunk, punch-drunk, punch drunk, punch drunk syndrome, roaring drunk, semidrunk, sleep-drunk, sloppy drunk, stale drunk, stumble-drunk, stupid drunk, undrunk, welcome-home-husband-though-never-so-drunk, whistle-drunk

Related terms

shake a cloth in the wind, be the worse for drink, hang one on, tie one on, under the influence, Like having endured violence, Impaired, askew, have a brick in one's hat, spancelled, Incapacitated, drunkard, drunkenness, alcoholic, alcoholic beverage, broken

Hypernyms

chemically inconvenienced, intoxicate, intoxicated

Hyponyms

94 terms

Nearly drunk, potulent, Mildly drunk, buzzed, corny, drunkish, ebrious, flashy, half-baked, lushy, mellow, merry, moppy, muddy, ree, screwy, semidrunk, slewed, slued, squiffy, swipey, tiddled, tiddly, tozy-mozy, Very drunk, airlocked, blotto, cabbaged, drunk as a boiled owl, drunk as a cunt, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as a fiddler's bitch, drunk as a lord, drunk as a rat, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunk as an owl, drunk as Chloe, drunk as David's sow, four sheets to the wind, FUBARed, fucked, fucked up, full as a goog, gone, hamboned, leathered, locked, obliterated, owly-eyed, para, parro, peloothered, pissed, pissed drunk, pissed as a fart, pissed as a newt, pissed as a rat, pissed as a parrot, rat-arsed, ratted, schnookered, shitfaced, shithoused, shwasted, slaughtered, sloshed to the gills, steaming, tore up, trollied, twatted, wankered, wasted, whistle-drunk, Beer, ale-blown, ale-washed, alecied, beered-up, beery, lagered up, Gin, Grog, Whisky/Whiskey, whiskeyfied, whiskified, whiskyfied, Wine, winedrunk, wined up, wineful, winy, pot-valiant