different between drunken vs drunkenness

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k?n/
• Rhymes: -??k?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English drunken, ydronken, idrunken, from Old English druncen, ?edruncen (“drunk; drunken”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunken”), past participle of Proto-Germanic *drinkan? (“to drink”), equivalent to drink +? -en. Cognate with West Frisian dronken (“drunk; drunken”), Dutch dronken (“drunk; drunken”), German betrunken (“drunk; drunken”), Swedish drucken (“drunk; drunken”).

Verb

drunken

1. (archaic) past participle of drink

Adjective

drunken (comparative more drunken, superlative most drunken)

1. Drunk, in the state of intoxication after having drunk an alcoholic beverage
   • "What'll we do with the drunken sailor, ..."
2. Given to habitual excessive use of alcohol.
3. Characterized by or resulting from drunkenness.

   a drunken display of crude exuberance

4. (obsolete) Saturated with liquid
   1. Applied to various spicy stir-fried dishes in Asian cuisine.

      drunken noodles; drunken duck; drunken fried rice

Synonyms

• drunk; see also Thesaurus:drunk

Derived terms

• drunkenly
• drunkenness
• drunken noodles
• drunken shrimp
• drunkensome

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dronknen, drunkenen, drunknen, from Old English druncnian (“to drown; get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkan?n? (“to get drunk”), from Proto-Germanic *drunkanaz (“drunk; intoxicated”). Cognate with Norwegian drukne, drukna, Icelandic drukna.

Verb

drunken (third-person singular simple present drunkens, present participle drunkening, simple past and past participle drunkened)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become drunk or drunken; intoxicate

Low German

Etymology

From drinken, cognate to English drunken, Dutch dronken.

Adjective

drunken (comparative drunkener, superlative drunkenst)

1. drunk, drunken

Declension

Synonyms

• duun
• bedrunken
• anduunt
• dick
• drietendick
• besapen
• betüdelt
• vull
• benusselt

English

Alternative forms

• dronkennesse (obsolete)

Etymology

drunken +? -ness

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k?n.n?s/
• Hyphenation: drunk?en?ness

Noun

drunkenness (usually uncountable, plural drunkennesses)

1. A state of being drunk.
   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     But presently the fumes of the wine rising to his head, he became helplessly drunk and his side-muscles and limbs relaxed and he swayed to and fro on my back. When I saw that he had lost his senses for drunkenness, I put my head to his legs and, loosing them from my neck, stooped down well-nigh to the ground and threw him at full length, […]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:drunkenness

Antonyms

• soberness; see also Thesaurus:drunkenness#Antonyms

Related terms

• drunk
• drunkard
• drunken

Translations

See also

• drunkenness on Wikipedia.Wikipedia