Meanings
comparative more drunkenly · superlative most drunkenly
- 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 Wyck1 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.
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
Cite this entry
drunkenly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunkenly
“drunkenly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drunkenly. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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