drunken

Adjective

US[druhng-kuhn]/ˈdrʌŋkən/2 syllables

Open English WordNet

given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol“a bibulous fellow”“a bibulous evening”“his boozy drinking companions”“thick boozy singing”“a drunken binge”“two drunken gentlemen holding each other up”“sottish behavior”Synonyms: bibulous boozy sottishOpposite soberSimilar intoxicated, drunk

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Drunk′en adjective

Origin: AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, intransitive verb, and cf. Drunk.

1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.

Drunken men imagine everything turneth round.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.

Let the earth be drunken with our blood.— William Shakespeare

3. Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

The drunken quarrels of a rake.— Jonathan Swift

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54