Adjective: drunken
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more drunken |
| Superlative | most drunken |
Sample Sentences
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What shall we do with a drunken sailor? […] / Put him in the longboat and make him bail her / Early in the morning. [a. 1830, Drunken Sailor (traditional sea shanty)]
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I ask now to put faces to those names and remove all doubt that the songs I've heard sung in your honor were not a drunken bard's attempt to make a few extra coins. This mission is dire and the reward shall fit you well.[…] [2014 December 23, Dallas S. Paskell, Medieval, Author House, →ISBN, page 389:]
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a drunken display of crude exuberance
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Surviving pictures of the accident show the two locomotives leaning at drunken angles, still covered with flags and evergreens—a mixture of comedy and tragedy. [1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 252:]
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drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice
Adjectives inflected like drunken
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
From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ġedruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), equivalent to drink + -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”). See: Dutch Adjectives '
dronken', German Adjectives '
betrunken', Swedish Adjectives '
drucken'.