Adjective: zonked
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more zonked |
| Superlative | most zonked |
Sample Sentences
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After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.
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zoegirl:yeah, but don’t say anything to my mom about it. (not that u would.) hey, i’ve gotta go to bed. i’m zonked. [2004, Lauren Myracle, ttyl, New York, NY: Amulet Books, →ISBN, page 57:]
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(yawns) I'm so zonked. The red alerts from that wormhole kept me up half the night. / Oh, I know. It's, like, are we crossing the event horizon or not? Like, I don't care actually. I just want you to pick one. [2021 August 19, Chris Kula, “Kayshon, His Eyes Open” (0:08 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 2, spoken by D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells):]
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"Anyone up for a game of parcheesi?" / "Maybe a movie. I'm zonked." / "The Brothers McMullin?" [2023 August 31, Jake Bender, Zach Dunn, Sam Johnson, Sarah Naftalis, w, Paul Simms, “Exit Interview” (22:36 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 10, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):]
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I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.
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The Pranksters had just held an Acid Test at the Fillmore Auditorium, a big ballroom in the middle of one of San Francisco's big Negro slums, the Fillmore district. It was a wild night. Hundreds of heads and bohos from all over the Bay area turned out, zonked to the eyeballs. [1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 253:]
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[S]wingers in the audience were getting zonked on beer and fresh sea breezes and sound […] [1974 July 26, “(please specify the article title)”, in New York, volume 7, number 27, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:]
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[…] playing eight-ball while zonked, chugging beer with locals […] [2004, Ed Sanders, Tales of beatnik glory:]
Adjectives inflected like zonked
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English zonk
3. Old English -ed
4. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
7. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
8. Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
9. Old English -od
10. Middle English -ed
11. English -ed
12. English zonked
13. From zonk + -ed.