drunk

Meanings

Adjective

• Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
• Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
• (usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.
• Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

Noun

• One who is intoxicated with alcohol.
• A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
• A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
• A drunken state.

Verb

• Past of drink

Related

Similar words

• boozy, sottish

Origin

• From Middle English drunke, drunken, ydrunke, ydrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen, from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz, *gadrunkanaz, 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 getrunken, betrunken, Swedish drucken, Icelandic drukkinn.