I. -kən sometimes -k ə ŋ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English druncen, from past participle of drincan to drink — more at drink
1. : drunk 1
when he was drunken , he was vulgar and silly — Katherine A. Porter
reeled like a drunken giant — H.G.Wells
2. obsolete : saturated with liquid or moisture : drenched
let the earth be drunken with our blood — Shakespeare
3.
a. : given to habitual excessive use of alcoholic drinks
we can not afford to have poor people anyhow, whether they be lazy or busy, drunken or sober — G.B.Shaw
b. : of, relating to, attended by, or characterized by intoxication
they come from … broken homes, drunken homes — P.B.Gilliam
a drunken cry
not in a drunken triumph but with awe — S.T.Coleridge
c. : resulting from or as if from alcoholic intoxication
drunken stupor
the diver is subject to wild, drunken delusions — Rachel L. Carson
4. : unsteady or lurching as if from alcoholic intoxication
insects which have walked on films of DDT soon begin to stagger in a drunken manner — Atlantic Monthly
5. : drunk 2
still drunken with hope and despair — Eve Langley
6. of a screw thread : having inequalities of pitch : wobbly
Synonyms: see drunk
II. intransitive verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
obsolete : to become drunk
III. adjective
: marinated, cooked, or soaked in beer or wine or in a mixture containing such a beverage
drunken chicken