drunk
//dɹʌŋk//
informalForms
- Comparative
- drunker
- Superlative
- drunkest
- Comparative
- more drunk
- Superlative
- most drunk
- Plural
- drunks
Definitions
1.Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"
2.Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- They have drunk two bottles of wine.
- How many cans of beer have you drunk?
3.Elated or emboldened.
- Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
4.Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
1.One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.
2.A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
3.A person whose behaviour when drunk tends to be of a specified kind.
- He's a talkative drunk; three beers in and he's chattering away about everything.
1.While drunk.
- He was arrested for driving drunk.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3162
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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”).