Word Meanings - DRUNK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk . Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay.

Additional info about word: DRUNK

1. Intoxicated with, or as with, strong drink; inebriated; drunken; - - never used attributively, but always predicatively; as, the man is drunk . Be not drunk with wine, where in is excess. Eph. v. 18. Drunk with recent prosperity. Macaulay. 2. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DRUNK)

• Besotted
• Intoxicated
• steeped
• stupefied
• drunk
• drenched
• doltish
• gross
• prejudiced
• Tipsy
• Drunk
• fuddled
• inebriated
• muzzy

Related words: (words related to DRUNK)

• PREJUDICATIVE
  Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. Dr. H. More.
• BESOTTINGLY
  In a besotting manner.
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• MUZZY
  Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. W. Irving.
• PREJUDICAL
  Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
• BESOTTED
  Made sottish, senseless, or infatuated; characterized by drunken stupidity, or by infatuation; stupefied. "Besotted devotion." Sir W. Scott. -- Be*sot"ted*ly, adv. -- Be*sot"ted*ness, n. Milton.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• DRUNKENNESS
  1. The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit. The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company. I.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• PREJUDICATE
  1. Formed before due examination. "Ignorance and prejudicate opinions." Jer. Taylor. 2. Biased by opinions formed prematurely; prejudiced. "Prejudicate readers." Sir T. Browne.
• STUPEFIEDNESS
  Quality of being stupid.
• FUDDLE
  To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele. (more info) Etym:
• INEBRIATION
  The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay. Syn. -- See Drunkenness.
• PREJUDICATION
  1. The act of prejudicating, or of judging without due examination of facts and evidence; prejudgment. A preliminary inquiry and determination about something which belongs to a matter in dispute. A previous treatment and decision of a point; a
• PREJUDICANT
  Influenced by prejudice; biased. " With not too hasty and prejudicant ears." Milton.
• DRUNKEN
  1. Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated. Drunken men imagine everything turneth round. Bacon. 2. Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak. 3. Pertaining
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• FUDDLER
  A drunkard. Baxter.
• DOLTISH
  Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish; as, a doltish clown. -- Dolt"ish*ly, adv. -- Dolt"ish*ness, n.
• INDRENCH
  To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
• INGROSS
  See ENGROSS