adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 drunk or often getting drunk:
a drunken driver * She was often beaten by her drunken husband.
2 showing the effects of too much alcohol; involving people who are drunk:
He came home to find her in a drunken stupor. * a drunken brawl * drunken laughter / singing * He finally fell into a drunken sleep.
drunkenly adverb:
He staggered drunkenly to his feet.
drunkenness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for drunken is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does drunken appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — drunken appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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