drunken

adjective

drunk·en | \ ˈdrəŋ-kən

Definition of drunken

1 : drunk sense 1 a drunken driver

2 obsolete : saturated with liquid

3a : given to habitual excessive use of alcohol

b : of, relating to, or characterized by intoxication they come from … broken homes, drunken homes— P. B. Gilliam

c : resulting from or as if from intoxication a drunken brawl

4 : unsteady or lurching as if from alcoholic intoxication

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Synonyms & Antonyms for drunken

Synonyms

besotted, blasted [slang], blind, blitzed [slang], blotto [slang], bombed, boozy, canned [slang], cockeyed, crocked, drunk, fried, gassed, hammered [slang], high, impaired, inebriate, inebriated, intoxicated, juiced [slang], lit, lit up, loaded [slang], looped, oiled [slang], pickled, pie-eyed, plastered, potted [slang], ripped [slang], sloshed [slang], smashed [slang], sottish, soused, sozzled, squiffed (or squiffy), stewed, stiff, stinking [slang], stoned, tanked [slang], tiddly [chiefly British], tight, tipsy, wasted [slang], wet, wiped out [slang]

Antonyms

sober, straight

Examples of drunken in a Sentence

The streets were filled with drunken revelers on New Year's Eve. He lives in an apartment with his drunken mother. He fell into a drunken stupor. A drunken brawl broke out at the bar.

Recent Examples on the Web

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer tells the Star Tribune Diaz-Carbajal was deported to Mexico in 2012 because of three drunken-driving convictions and one for domestic assault. — Fox News, "Feds: Man charged in Minnesota stabbing was in US illegally," 22 Aug. 2018 Image Four months in jail and community service is the penalty a former New York City police officer has ended up paying for killing a 22-year-old student last year in a drunken-driving accident in Queens. — New York Times, "Ex-Officer Who Killed Student While Driving Drunk Is Freed," 8 June 2018 Vehicles are not held responsible for drunken-driving deaths. — Paul Jenkins, Anchorage Daily News, "Cellphones aren’t blamed in texting-while-driving deaths. Why blame guns for mass shootings?," 31 Mar. 2018 Safety agencies say safer cars, improved roadways and stricter drunken-driving laws are behind the overall decrease in deaths and that even fewer people would have died if speed limits hadn’t increased. — Jo Craven Mcginty, WSJ, "Speed-Limit Boosts Show No Signs of Slowing Down," 16 Mar. 2018 New drunken-driving legislation got a mixed reception Tuesday, with a House committee advancing one bill and delaying a vote on the other. — Ruth Brown, idahostatesman, "New program could erase 1st-time DUI charges, if lawmakers approve it | Idaho Statesman," 27 Feb. 2018 Pollock's struggles with alcoholism and untimely death in a drunken-driving accident gave his story a tragic end while adding to his popular cachet and auction-house value. — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, "Many shades of gray define new exhibit at Elizabeth Leach Gallery," 7 Jan. 2018 Cheney himself—exquisitely realized by Christian Bale from his beginnings as a drunken adolescent in Wyoming to his full-flowering, 40 years and at least 40 pounds later, as nonpareil hoarder and wielder of power under Bush 43—though, is no joke. — Corey Seymour, Vogue, "Should You See Adam McKay’s New Film, Vice?," 20 Dec. 2018 Suddenly a car came hurtling down the steep road, ricocheting off parked cars as its drunken driver struggled to regain control, witnesses told police. — Samantha Pearson, WSJ, "In Latin America, Awash in Crime, Citizens Impose Their Own Brutal Justice," 6 Dec. 2018

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