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In general drunk is used predicatively (after a verb: He arrived drunk) and drunken is used attributively (before a noun: We have a drunken landlord). There is sometimes a slight difference in meaning, drunk referring to a particular occasion and drunken suggesting habit. Drunken also qualifies nouns for circumstances and events as well as people (A drunken brawl ensued). Drunk is used as a noun, meaning 'a person who is drunk'.

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adjective

Stupefied, excited, or muddled with alcoholic liquor: besotted, crapulent, crapulous, drunken, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, sodden, tipsy. Informal cockeyed, stewed. Slang blind, bombed, boozed, boozy, crocked, high, lit (up), loaded, looped, pickled, pixilated, plastered, potted, sloshed, smashed, soused, stinking, stinko, stoned, tight, zonked. Idioms: drunk as a skunk, half-seas over, high as a kite, in one's cups, three sheetsintothe wind. See drugs/temperance.

noun

1. A person who is habitually drunk: drunkard, inebriate, sot, tippler. Slang boozehound, boozer, lush², rummy¹, soak, souse, sponge, stiff. See drugs/temperance.
2. A drinking bout: binge, brannigan, carousal, carouse, spree. Slang bat², bender, booze, jag, tear¹. See drugs/temperance, restraint/unrestraint.

adj

Definition: intoxicated by alcohol
Antonyms: sober, straight

n. loaded.  We're at the bottom of the fifth and the bases are drunk.

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IN BRIEF: n. - Someone who is intoxicated; A chronic drinker. adj. - Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol); Having swallowed a liquid to quench thirst.

The stag at eve had drunk his fill. — Sir Walter Scott, Source: The Lady of the Lake, 1810

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Being drunk, as opposed to simply be intoxicated, can represent loss of control and abandonment to irrational forces. Drunkenness can also symbolize exhaustion, as in the expression "punch drunk."

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noun
noun

A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness. (1779 —) .
H. Nielsen She was sleeping off a drunk in the bedroom (1966).

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For a list of words related to drunk, see:

• Behavior or Personality
• Drunkenness, Drunkards, and Alcoholism - drunk: (adj) intoxicated by alcoholic drink; temporarily impaired, excited, or stupefied by alcoholic drink; Slang: blasted, blotto, bombed, canned, cockeyed, crocked, fried, high, in one’s cups, lit up, loaded, oiled, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, polluted, potted, ripped, shitfaced, shnockered, skunk drunk, sloshed, smashed, sotted, sozzled, squiffed, stewed, stinko, stoned, swacked, tanked, tiddly, tight, tipsy, wasted, wiped out, woozy, wrecked, zonked

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See words rhyming with "drunk."

Dansk (Danish)
adj. - beruset, overvældet
n. - dranker, druktur

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    fuld og på rulleskøjter

Nederlands (Dutch)
dronken, door het dolle heen, dronkaard, drinkgelag, drank

Français (French)
adj. - (fig) ivre, enivré, grisé, (Jur) en état d'ivresse publique
n. - homme ou femme soûl(e), soûlard(e)

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    (Jur) en état d'ivresse publique ou manifeste

Deutsch (German)
n. - Betrunkener
adj. - -trunken, betrunken

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    betrunken und die öffentliche Ruhe störend

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μεθυσμένος, μπεκρής, μεθύστακας
adj. - μεθυσμένος

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    (νομ.) (διαταράσσων την τάξη) υπό την επήρεια μέθης, σε κατάσταση μέθης

Italiano (Italian)
ubriaco, ebbro, avvinazzato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - bêbedo (m)
adj. - embriagado

Русский (Russian)
пьяница, пьяный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - borracho, delirante, ebrio
n. - borracho, ebrio

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    borracho y haciendo escándalos en público

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fyllo
adj. - full, berusad

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
喝醉了的, 醉汉, 酒鬼, 酒宴, 闹饮

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    发酒疯

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 喝醉了的
n. - 醉漢, 酒鬼, 酒宴, 鬧飲

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    發酒瘋

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 취한, 빠진
n. - 술꾼, 술자리

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 酔っぱらい
adj. - 酔って, うっとりして

idioms:

• drunk and disorderly    酔って乱暴な
• drunk as a lord    ひどく酔って

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) الشخص السكير (صفه) سكران, ثمل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שתוי‬
n. - ‮שיכור‬

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