[ UK /dɹˈʌŋkən/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹəŋkən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
    thick boozy singing
    a drunken binge
    a bibulous fellow
    his boozy drinking companions
    a bibulous evening
    sottish behavior
    two drunken gentlemen holding each other up

How To Use drunken In A Sentence

  • The faces he recognized were those of the laziest and most incapable workmen in the town -- men whose weekly wages were habitually docked for drunkenness, late hours, and botchy work. The Bread-winners A Social Study
  • He initially admitted having had three pints of beer but then blamed his drunkenness on the cake. The Sun
  • How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • The mobs of drunken men are whooping it up upstairs.
  • Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
  • On the sidewalk Soapy began to yell drunken gibberish at the top of his harsh voice.
  • There's no insight into Alexander's transition from beloved leader to drunken megalomaniac; one minute he has his subjects hanging on his every word, and then next thing you know he's declaring himself a god.
  • Some of his more drunken friends burst into song.
  • The laughter wasn't very loud, it sounded normal, unlike the laughter of a madman, or a drunken pirate.
  • The jury later wrote to the coroner, deploring the fact that an unseaworthy ship could put to sea with a drunken captain.
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