drunkenly

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adverb

In a drunken manner.

UncommonScrabble 17

Meanings

adverbdrunkenly (comparative more drunkenly, superlative most drunkenly)

comparative more drunkenly · superlative most drunkenly

  1. In a drunken manner.

    […] there, tipping drunkenly over the top of dense growth, were the totem poles of Gittex.

    1941, Emily Carr, chapter 9, in Klee Wyck
    1 more example

    O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son, For that I was his father Edward's son; That blood already, like the pelican, Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:

    1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

    Synonyms: bibulously, intoxicatedly, leglessly, winefully

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbIn a drunken manner.

Also see

Origin

Translations

Esperanto ebrie
  • ebriein a drunken manner
Hungarian ittasan
  • ittasanin a drunken manner
Polish pijacko
  • pijackoin a drunken manner
Ukrainian п'я́но
  • п'я́но (pʺjáno)in a drunken manner
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APA

drunkenly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunkenly

MLA

“drunkenly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunkenly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drunkenly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunkenly.

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