Dizzy vs Drunk - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between dizzy and drunk

is that dizzy is having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded while drunk is in a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

As verbs the difference between dizzy and drunk

is that dizzy is to make dizzy, to bewilder while drunk is .

As a noun drunk is

a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

dizzy

English

Alternative forms

* dizzie (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Having a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; giddy; feeling unbalanced or lightheaded.

I stood up too fast and felt dizzy .

* Drayton

Alas! his brain was dizzy .

Producing giddiness.

We climbed to a dizzy height.

* Macaulay

To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IX

...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.

empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous

My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.

* Milton

the dizzy multitude

Derived terms

* dizzily * dizziness * dizzyingly

Verb

To make dizzy, to bewilder.

*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.161:

Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature.

* Sir Walter Scott

If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.

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drunk

English

Adjective

(er)

In a state of intoxication caused by the consumption of excessive alcohol, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.

(usually followed by with or on) Elated or emboldened.

Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.

* Macaulay

drunk with recent prosperity

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42

I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.

Synonyms

* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see also

Derived terms

(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tank

Noun

(en noun)

A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.

* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10

Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.

A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.

* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:

Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.

A drunken state.

* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:

Here – help yourself to another drop there, Redmond! By the time we've got a good drunk on us there'll be more crack in this valley than the night I pissed on the electric fence!

Derived terms

* cheap drunk * expensive drunk * good drunk

Synonyms

* (habitual drinker) alcoholic, drunkard, pisshead, piss artist, sot; see also

Verb

(head)

(Southern US) (drink)

English irregular past participles