adjective
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intoxicated with or as if with alcohol
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frequently or habitually drunk
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(prenominal) caused by or relating to alcoholic intoxication
a drunken brawl
Usage
See drunk.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of drunken
Variant of drunk adj. and past participle
Example Sentences
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It would also have been nice if, instead of circling notes like a drunken canary, Mr. Attmore had landed with a bit more frequency.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
PC Pritchard, who joined North Wales Police as a trainee in 2023, admitted her drunken behaviour was inappropriate, but denied it was gross misconduct.
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025
His "drunken monkey" hypothesis initially met resistance from many scientists, especially primatologists, who argued that primates in the wild do not commonly eat fermented fruits or nectar.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025
There are no gilded gates here, but there is one heck of a party, complete with serenading busts, ballroom dancers, excitable opera singers, drunken buffoonery and portraits locked in an endless duel.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025
Radiating out from Awkaypata was a drunken spiderweb of forty-one crooked, spiritually powerful lines, known as zeq’e, that linked holy features of the landscape: springs, tombs, caves, shrines, fields, stones.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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