DRUNKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does drunken mean? 

• DRUNKEN (adjective)
  The adjective DRUNKEN has 1 sense:

1. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol

  Familiarity information: DRUNKEN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRUNKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol

Synonyms:

bibulous; boozy; drunken; sottish

Context example:

sottish behavior

Similar:

drunk; gone; inebriated; intoxicated; ripped (stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol))

Derivation:

drunkenness (a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol)

 Context examples 

His great red hands were bunched into huge, gnarled fists, and he shook one of them menacingly as his drunken gaze swept round the tables.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Joe read it with a drunken, quizzical leer.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Keep your tongue still, or it will be the worse for you,” shouted the most drunken of the archers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a broken thwart, and both in their muddy and unbailed condition.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

There never was such another drunken madman in that line of business, I hope.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I am like a sober man looking upon drunken men, and, greatly weary, wishing he, too, were drunk.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He looked at them like a drunken man and maundered in strange, sleepy speech.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The maids complained of his drunken habits and his vile language.

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

This drunken hound, that he should dare to raise his hand to her, whose boots he was not worthy to lick!

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

Both the guards who held Summerlee were down, and he was staggering about like a drunken man in his amazement, unable to realize that he was a free man.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)