DRUNK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drunk mean? 

• DRUNK (noun)
  The noun DRUNK has 2 senses:

1. a chronic drinker

2. someone who is intoxicated

  Familiarity information: DRUNK used as a noun is rare.

• DRUNK (adjective)
  The adjective DRUNK has 2 senses:

1. stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

2. as if under the influence of alcohol

  Familiarity information: DRUNK used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUNK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A chronic drinker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

drunk; drunkard; inebriate; rummy; sot; wino

Hypernyms ("drunk" is a kind of...):

drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drunk"):

alcoholic; alky; boozer; dipsomaniac; lush; soaker; souse (a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually)

Derivation:

drunk (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is intoxicated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("drunk" is a kind of...):

drinker; imbiber; juicer; toper (a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "drunk"):

drunk-and-disorderly (someone arrested on the charge of being drunk and disorderly)

Derivation:

drunk (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

• DRUNK (adjective)

Comparative: drunker   
Superlative: drunkest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)

Synonyms:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped

Context example:

helplessly inebriated

Similar:

bacchanal; bacchanalian; bacchic; carousing; orgiastic (used of riotously drunken merrymaking)

beery (smelling of beer)

besotted; blind drunk; blotto; cockeyed; crocked; fuddled; loaded; pie-eyed; pissed; pixilated; plastered; slopped; sloshed; smashed; soaked; soused; sozzled; squiffy; stiff; tight; wet (very drunk)

potty; tiddly; tipsy (slightly intoxicated)

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish (given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol)

doped; drugged; narcotised; narcotized (under the influence of narcotics)

half-seas-over (British informal for 'intoxicated')

high; mellow (slightly and pleasantly intoxicated from alcohol or a drug (especially marijuana))

hopped-up; stoned (under the influence of narcotics)

Derivation:

drunk (someone who is intoxicated)

drunk (a chronic drinker)

Sense 2

Meaning:

As if under the influence of alcohol

Synonyms:

drunk; intoxicated

Context example:

drunk with excitement

Similar:

excited (in an aroused state)

 Context examples 

An hour later, when we entered the house, we found him stretched dead drunk upon the dining-room sofa.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a good-hearted man when he was sober, but a perfect fiend when he was drunk, or rather when he was half drunk, for he seldom really went the whole way.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That copper thought I was drunk."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But you're never happy till you're drunk.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Is Toller still drunk?” he asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

After he had drunk a quart of hot water the man found he was able to stand, and even to walk as well as a dying man might be supposed to walk.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

My thoughts and every feeling of my soul have been drunk up by the interest for my guest which this tale and his own elevated and gentle manners have created.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

So they went indoors together and sat down, and the man brought out the bread, meat, and wine, which although he had eaten and drunk of them, were still unconsumed.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

While all his ship was getting drunk as fast as it could, he remained sober.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And yet I have heard that there is a great deal of wine drunk in Oxford.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)