What is the difference between drunken and drunk?
drunken | drunk | Synonyms |
Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage
* "What'll we do with the drunken sailor, ..."
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.
* Macaulay
Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 42
A habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.
* 1971 , William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead , page 10
A drinking-bout; a period of drunkenness.
* 1858 , "A Scarcity of Jurors—Cangemi's Third Trial," New York Times , 8 Jun., p. 4:
A drunken state.
* 2006 , Patrick McCabe, Winterwood , Bloomsbury 2007, p. 10:
Drunk is a related term of drunken.
Drunk is a synonym of drunken.
Drunk is a derived term of drunken.
As adjectives the difference between drunken and drunk
is that drunken is drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage 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 drunken and drunk
is that drunken is form of Alternative past participle|drink|lang=en while drunk is past participle of lang=en.As a noun drunk is
a habitual drinker, especially one who is frequently intoxicated.drunken
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Adjective
(en adjective)- drunken''' noodles; '''drunken''' duck; '''drunken fried rice
Synonyms
* drunk; see alsoDerived terms
* drunken noodlesdrunk
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Adjective
(er)- Drunk with power he immediately ordered a management reshuffle.
- drunk with recent prosperity
- I will make mine arrows drunk with blood.
Synonyms
* (intoxicated from alcohol) blitzed, drunken, ebrious, hammered, pissed, tipsy, wasted, smashed; see alsoDerived terms
(terms derived from drunk) * drunkard * drunk as a skunk * drunk driver * drunk driving * drunken * drunkenness * punch drunk * drunk tankNoun
(en noun)- Another drunk is sleeping in dangerous proximity to a brush fire.
- Gen. G. had been on a long drunk from July last until Christmas.
- 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!