Drunk (root: drink)

• POS: Adjective, Noun

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Drunk, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 rendered incapable by alcohol (blind drunk; dead drunk; drunk as a lord).
2 (often foll. by with) overcome or elated with joy, success, power, etc.
--n.
1 a habitually drunk person.
2 sl. a drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.

Etymology

past part. of DRINK

THESAURUS

Drunk

ablaze, addled, afire, aflame, alcoholic, alcoholic addict, animated, ardent, bacchanal, bacchanalia, bacchanalian, bat, beery, bemused, bender, besotted, bibber, big drunk, binge, blind drunk, blotto, boiling over, boozer, boozy, bout, breathless, burning, bust, carousal, carouse, carouser, celebration, chronic alcoholic, chronic drunk, compotation, cordial, crapulent, crapulous, crocked, debauch, delirious, devotee of Bacchus, dipsomaniac, dizzy, drenched, drinker, drinking, drinking bout, drunkard, drunken, drunken carousal, ecstatic, enthusiastic, excited, exhilarated, exuberant, far-gone, febrile, fervent, fervid, fevered, feverish, fiery, flaming, flushed, flustered, fou, full, gay, giddy, glorious, glowing, groggy, guzzle, guzzler, happy, hard drinker, hearty, heated, heavy drinker, hot, imbiber, impassioned, in liquor, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, inflamed, inspirited, intense, intoxicated, invigorated, jag, jolly, juiced, keen, lit, lit up, lively, loaded, lovepot, lush, maudlin, mellow, merry, muddled, nappy, oenophilist, oiled, on fire, orgy, out cold, passionate, pathological drinker, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, plastered, polluted, pot companion, potation, problem drinker, pub-crawl, red-hot, reeling, revel, reveler, rummy, serious drinker, shikker, smashed, soak, soaker, social drinker, sodden, sot, sotted, souse, soused, sponge, spree, squiffy, steaming, steamy, stewed, stiff, stinko, stoned, swigger, swiller, symposium, tanked, tear, thirsty soul, tiddly, tight, tippler, tipsy, toot, toper, tosspot, under the influence, under the table, under the weather, unrestrained, vigorous, warm, wassail, wassailer, well-oiled, wet, winebibber, wino, zealous, zonked

ROGET THESAURUS

Drunk

Drunkenness

N drunkenness, intemperance, drinking, inebriety, inebriation, ebriety, ebriosity, insobriety, intoxication, temulency, bibacity, wine bibbing, comtation, potation, deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations, bender, oinomania, dipsomania, delirium tremens, alcohol, alcoholism, mania a potu, drink, alcoholic drinks, blue ruin, grog, port wine, punch, punch bowl, cup, rosy wine, flowing bowl, drop, drop too much, dram, beer, aguardiente, apple brandy, applejack, brandy, brandy smash, chain lightning, champagne, cocktail, gin, ginsling, highball, peg, rum, rye, schnapps, sherry, sling, uisquebaugh, usquebaugh, whisky, xeres, drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber, wine-bibber, lush, hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker, soaker, sponge, tun, love pot, toss pot, thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian, Bacchal, Bacchante, devotee to Bacchus, bum, guzzler, tavern haunter, drunk, tipsy, intoxicated, inebrious, inebriate, inebriated, in one's cups, in a state of intoxication, temulent, temulentive, bombed, smashed, fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated, flustered, disguised, groggy, beery, top-heavy, potvaliant, glorious, potulent, squiffy, overcome, overtaken, whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin, crapulous, dead drunk, woozy, buzzed, flush, flushed, inter pocula, in liquor, the worse for liquor, having had a drop too much, half seas over, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, under the table, drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow, drunken, bibacious, sottish, given to drink, addicted to drink, addicted to the bottle, toping, nunc est bibendum, Bacchus ever fair and young, drink down all unkindness, O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to.