Definition of zonkednext

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Recent Examples of zonked Marla wears a stony expression, clearly too zonked to take in any of it. Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025 After the Monkees split, Nesmith began his eccentric solo career, with amiably zonked records that were years ahead of their time. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021 Only Andersson, the doyen of inaction movies, could offer beatitudes to the ineffectual and the zonked. Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021 Most people take pre-workout for performance reasons or to simply feel better and less zonked when working out. SELF, 27 Aug. 2020 And that's what an asphalt nation of zonked American teenagers did during the '80s. Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Jan. 2020 But the overall effect of Gail Daughtry is to re-create the happily zonked university afternoons during which so many fans of my generation steeped ourselves in the elegant inanity of Wain’s output. Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019 But the movie’s high point is a scene where Diane Varsi, playing the most zonked member of Max’s entourage (which includes a young Richard Pryor), addresses Congress as if from the stage of the Fillmore. J. Hoberman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for zonked
Adjective
  • Start with this one and once you’re hooked, there are plenty of other squills for experimentation.
    Paul Cappeillo, Louisville Courier Journal, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Even in brighter skies, its shape is recognizable, forming a hooked pattern that stands out from the surrounding stars.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Hsu maps a Los Angeles of leftovers and castoffs; portraits of friends and strangers in the street are full of dazed, inscrutable expressions.
    Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • When the dazed young woman reels off quotes from an obscure self-help book, her new acolytes take her words as gnomic wisdom.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Since each toolhead can remain loaded with a separate filament, the printer can switch between them (in a single second, the company claims), without repeatedly purging filament through one nozzle.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
  • During a search, officers discovered a loaded handgun in the employee's bag.
    Bryan Lynn, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • Five o’clock Saturday, the Riverside Stadium and Middlesbrough head coach Kim Hellberg is fist-pumping a half-bewildered but fully enthused home crowd.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
  • When kids first got online, parents were bewildered and alarmed, but kids, who tend to gravitate to new technology, found freedom in a space that was basically ungoverned.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The team believes that the approach could reduce wasted heat and also eliminate emissions associated with burning fossil fuels in cement kilns.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
  • When these work together, firms may reduce wasted spend, improve lead quality, and stabilize case flow.
    William Jones, USA Today, 24 Feb. 2026
Adjective
  • Other magpies gathered around it, as if saddened and confused.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Amanda Seyfried‘s sad school teacher is the heart and confused soul of Tim Blake Nelson‘s latest directorial outing The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The data set shows the Hong Kong chief executive is the second-highest earner ​globally with $719,000 annually, followed by the Swiss president at $606,000.
    Reuters, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Summer is finally nearing its end, though the high temperatures linger, making any thought of hot chocolate and curling up in blankets on the couch dangerous.
    Brenda Looper, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • In the moment, however, Martins imbues tremendous intrigue through snippets of the seemingly distracted middle-aged driver, Wesley (Renato Novaes), and eventually, through the crash itself.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 13 Sep. 2026
  • Following instructions from the kidnappers (unbeknownst to his increasingly agitated comrades), Lee drives out to meet them for the exchange, only to wreck his car and become distracted saving a nearby woman, Hua (Moon Lee).
    Jake Cole, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2026

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“Zonked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/zonked. Accessed 17 Sep. 2026.

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