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drunken
drunken /ˈdrʌŋkən/ adjective [only before noun]
 Word Family: noun: drink, drinker, drinking, drunk, drunkenness; adjective: drunk, drunken; verb: drink; adverb: drunkenly
1. drunk or showing that you are drunk:
    He was a drunken bully.
    She was lying in a drunken stupor (=nearly unconscious from being drunk) on the sidewalk.
2. drunken party/orgy/brawl etc a party etc where people are drunk:
    Tom got into a drunken brawl (=fight) in a bar.
—drunkenly adverb
—drunkenness noun [uncountable]
     
THESAURUS
    drunk [not usually before noun] having drunk too much alcohol so that your behaviour and mental processes are affected: Gary was too drunk to remember what had happened that night. | I just hope they don’t get drunk and start fighting. | drunk driving | The police are going to crack down on drunk drivers.
    tipsy/merry [not before noun] slightly drunk: After the second glass of wine I was feeling a little tipsy.
    pissed [not usually before noun] British English informal drunk – this word is very common in spoken British English, but it is not polite: Don’t listen to him – he’s pissed.
    intoxicated [not before noun] formal drunk: He was arrested for driving while intoxicated.
    paralytic/legless [not before noun] British English informal extremely drunk: Don’t give Dave any more to drink -- he’s already legless. | They became totally paralytic and abusive.
    drunken [only before noun] especially written used to describe someone who is drunk or their behaviour. Drunken is mainly used in written English and is always used before a noun. Don’t say ‘he is drunken’. Say he is drunk: A drunken man was found lying outside a shop door. | We found him lying by the roadside in a drunken stupor (=almost unconscious as a result of being drunk).