Meanings
alternative blind-drunk
- not comparableSo intoxicated as to appear to have difficulty seeing.
- not comparableExtremely drunk.
We’re said to have so many hang-ups that we don’t even talk about sex until we’re in the pub, and to need to be blind drunk before anything approaching physical contact occurs.
2013, Nic Fleming, at BBC, Sex Lessons, British Style1 more example
Man, I was so pissed off at you. I got blind drunk that night, and it was a few days later before I got it together enough to check the news vids and saw that almost all those mercs had gotten killed by Archangel.
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Glad I Didn't Sign Up!Synonyms: Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveExtremely drunk.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivevery drunk
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
First attested in the mid 18th century.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish umpikännissä
- umpikännissäcompletely intoxicated
Hungarian holtrészeg
- holtrészegcompletely intoxicated
Irish caoch ar meisce, caoch ar na cannaí
- caoch ar meiscecompletely intoxicated
- caoch ar na cannaícompletely intoxicated
- caochtacompletely intoxicated
- dalltacompletely intoxicated
Polish pijany jak świnia, zalany w trupa
- pijany jak świniacompletely intoxicated
- zalany w trupacompletely intoxicated
- urżniętycompletely intoxicated
- pijany jak belacompletely intoxicated
- pijany jak szewccompletely intoxicated
- nawalony jak Messerschmittcompletely intoxicated
- pijany w sztokcompletely intoxicated
- w pestkęcompletely intoxicated
- w sztokcompletely intoxicated
- w trupacompletely intoxicated
Scottish Gaelic dall daorach
- dall daorachcompletely intoxicated
Cite this entry
blind drunk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20drunk
“blind drunk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20drunk. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blind drunk,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blind%20drunk.
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