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What is the adjective for drunken?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs drink, drinck and drinkle which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

drunk
  1. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by drinking alcoholic beverages.
  2. Habitually or frequently in a state of intoxication.
  3. (with) Elated or emboldened.
  4. Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “For six weeks, I lived the part of a drunk bum, sleeping in my clothes, not washing, walking around the streets, and drinking excessively.”
drunken
  1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage
  2. Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
  3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.
  4. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
    1. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “After a night of partying, John stumbled into his apartment, displaying all the typical signs of a drunken state.”
      “Their warning comes as the Government has announced a crackdown on binge drinking and drunken anti-social behaviour.”
drinkable
  1. Able to be drunk (as liquid).
  2. (of water) Safe to drink.
  3. (beverage) Of good or satisfactory quality.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “River water, incidentally, is even drinkable today after a good boil.”
drinkworthy
drunklike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of a drunken state.
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drinkless
  1. Without a drink, without drinks.
drunkish
  1. Somewhat drunk.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There was more laughter—and Gerald was leading them along very ably: they were drunkish and amenable, even gullible, since making a speech was a kind of trick.”
drunker
  1. comparative form of drunk: more drunk
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He is drunker than a sailor, his breath smelling of double-malt whiskey and wintergreen.”
      “More than half of them were merry with alcohol at that point, and a lot drunker than people thought I was.”
      “For example, as he grew drunker in the final act, he began to slip back into the Irish brogue that he told us he had worked so hard to erase.”
drunkest
drinking
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