drunken Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
    sottish; boozy; bibulous.
    • a bibulous fellow
    • a bibulous evening
    • his boozy drinking companions
    • thick boozy singing
    • a drunken binge
    • two drunken gentlemen holding each other up
    • sottish behavior

WordNet

Drunk"en adjective
Etymology
AS. druncen, prop., that has drunk, p. p. of drincan, taken as active. See Drink, v. i., and cf. Drunk.
Definitions
  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 to, or proceeding from, intoxication.
    The drunken quarrels of a rake. Swift.

Webster 1913