drunk
Plural: drunks
Noun
- A person who is intoxicated or habitually drinks to excess.
- a chronic drinker
- someone who is intoxicated
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
- A drunken state.
Verb
- take in liquids
- consume alcohol
- propose a toast to
- be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic
- past participle of drink
- simple past of drink
Adjective
- Intoxicated by alcohol; in a state of impaired physical and mental faculties.
- stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Adjective Satellite
- as if under the influence of alcohol
- "drunk with excitement"
Adj
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened.
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
Adv
- While drunk.
Examples
- Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- Even a DRUNK could spell ’CAT’, but a true Words With Friends player aims higher.
- He was arrested for driving drunk.
- His DRUNK attempt at a seven-letter word resulted in an invalid play and a lost turn.
Origin / 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
booze, drink, drink in, drunkard, fuddle, imbibe, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, pledge, rummy, salute, sot, toast, tope, wassail, wino, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, alco, alcoholic, aled up, alkie, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibber, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, boozy, borachio, bosky, bottled, bouser, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', buzzed, canned, carouser, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cupster, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, dipso, dipsomaniac, disguised, drinker, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddlecap, fuddled, fuddler, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, grog artist, groggified, groggy, guzzler, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, 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, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, juicehead, kaylied, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, lick-wimble, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lush, lushed, lusher, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, maltworm, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, 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, piss artist, pisshead, pisspot, pixilated, plastered, plonko, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, rumpot, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, slubberdegullion, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soak, soaken, soaker, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, souse, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, sponge, spongy, sprung, squeeze-grape, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, suck-pint, sucker, swacked, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tippler, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toper, toping, tosspot, trashed, tun, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, winebibber, winesop, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed
Antonyms
sober, abstemious, clean, clearheaded, on the wagon, sober as a judge, teetotal
Scrabble Score: 10
drunk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddrunk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
drunk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary