drunk
/dɹʌŋk/
drunk adjective: intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages. Also the past participle of drink.
Adjective
drunk (comparative drunker, superlative drunkest)
- Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- So I took a great dry gourd and, cutting open the head, scooped out the inside and cleaned it; after which I gathered grapes from a vine which grew hard by and squeezed them into the gourd, till it was full of the juice. Then I stopped up the mouth and set in the sun, where I left it for some days...1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 557”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a...
- "What part of 'you got drunk' did our parents misunderstand?" "I only drank a few shots!"2013 May 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Thursday, May 9, 2013
- Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
- Elated or emboldened.
- Drunk with power, he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...
- Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Deuteronomy 32:42
- Synonyms:
- wet
Adverb
drunk (comparative more drunk, superlative most drunk)
- While drunk.
- He was arrested for driving drunk.
Noun
drunk (plural drunks)
- One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
- She famously could not drive, but she introduced the breathalyser test to prosecute drunks who tried to.2025 November 26, Howard Johnston, “Top 10: Influential ministers: Barbara Castle 1965-68”, in RAIL, number 1049, page 61
- A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 10
- 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.
- A drinking bout; a period of drunkenness.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.1858 June 8, “A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial”, in New York Times, page 4
- I wisht somebody would take me off on a drunk. I want to get stinkin', paralyzin', forgettin'-drunk[…].1924 July [1923 August], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Sixth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section I, page 265
- A drunken state.
- Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!2006, Patrick McCabe, Winterwood, Bloomsbury, published 2007, page 10
Also used as
drunk is also the past participle of drink.
drunk is also the simple past of drink.
drunk meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
drunk in Hindi
- intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol
- मतवाला matvālā, शराबी śarābī, मत्त matt, मदहोश madhoś, मदिर madir, शौंड śauṇḍ
- elated by emotion
- उत्तेजित uttejit, शौंड śauṇḍ
- one who is drunk
- शौंड śauṇḍ
- habitual drinker
- पियक्कड़ piyakkaṛ, मतवाला matvālā
drunk in Tamil
- குடிபோதையில்
drunk in Urdu
- intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol
- متوالا matvālā
drunk in Bengali
- intoxicated after drinking too much alcohol
- মাতাল matal, মস্ত mosto
- habitual drinker
- মাতাল matal
More languagesFewer languages
- drunk in Telugu
- తాగుబోతు tāgubōtu
- drunk in Malayalam
- മദ്യപാനി madyapāni, കുടിയൻ kuṭiyaṉ
- drunk in Kannada
- ಕುಡಿದ
- drunk in Gujarati
- બેવડો bevṛo
- drunk in Sanskrit
- मत्त matta, प्रमत्त pramatta
- drunk in Tagalog
- lasing, lango, barik, lasinggero
- drunk in Arabic
- سَكْرَان sakrān, ثَمِل ṯamil, سِكِّير sikkīr, خِمِّير ḵimmīr
- drunk in Malay
- mabuk, pemabuk, kaki botol
- drunk in Indonesian
- mabuk, pemabuk
- drunk in Persian
- مست mast, پیان piyân, گرست garast, سرخوش sarxoš
- drunk in Thai
- ขี้เหล้า kîi-lâo, เมาเหล้า mao lâo, นักเลงสุรา nák-leeng-sù-raa
- drunk in Vietnamese
- say, xỉn, ma men
- drunk in Myanmar
- ယစ်ထုတ် yachtut
Examples of drunk in a sentence
- Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks.1983 December 10, Veneita Porter, “A Little Help From Mom”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 21, page 14:
- Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go on an overnight drunk, and in 10 days I'm going to set out to find the shark that ate my friend and destroy it.2004, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, spoken by Steve Zissou (Bill Murray):
Synonyms of drunk
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Antonyms
Forms of drunk
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | drunker |
| superlative | drunkest |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more drunk |
| superlative | most drunk |
| Noun | |
| plural | drunks |
Origin of drunk
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.
Words formed from drunk
- 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
Phrases with drunk
- drunk in
- drunk to
- drunk up
- cum drunk
- day drunk
- drunk off
- drunk out
- dry drunk
- got drunk
- sad drunk
- drunk down
- gets drunk
35 more phrasesFewer phrases
- good drunk
- town drunk
- cheap drunk
- drunk dials
- drunk tanks
- drunk texts
- drunk under
- happy drunk
- stale drunk
- drunk dialed
- drunk texted
- gotten drunk
- stupid drunk
- drunk dialing
- drunk dialled
- drunk drivers
- drunk texting
- getting drunk
- drunk dialling
- expensive drunk
- drunk and driven
- drunk the Kool Aid
- drunk the Kool-Aid
- drunk with the flies
- drunk from a firehose
- punch drunk syndromes
- drunk from the furry cup
- drunk one's own Kool-Aid
- drunk from the fire hydrant
- drunk someone under the table
- drunk something like lemonade
- preached water and drunk wine
- appeals from Philip drunk to Philip sober
- appealed from Philip drunk to Philip sober
- appealing from Philip drunk to Philip sober
Words that rhyme with drunk
Questions about drunk
- What does drunk mean?
- Drunk means intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
- What is drunk in Hindi?
- Drunk in Hindi is मतवाला (matvālā), शराबी (śarābī), मत्त (matt). See Drunk meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use drunk in a sentence?
- Life probably would have continued in blissful ignorance if it had not been for Vito's occasional late-night drunks.
- What part of speech is drunk?
- Drunk can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce drunk?
- Drunk is pronounced /dɹʌŋk/.
Words near drunk in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: drunk (page history and authors); drunk (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); drunk (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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