dead drunk

ADJECTIVE

blind drunk

Synonyms

WEAK

besotted buzzed crocked groggy inebriated intoxicated loaded pissed plastered sloshed smashed soused stiff tipsy under-the-table wasted

Antonyms

WEAK

sober

ADJECTIVE

plastered

Synonyms

STRONG

bashed blitzed bombed buzzed crocked flushed flying fried gone inebriated lit loaded pissed polluted potted sauced sloshed stewed stoned tanked totaled wasted

WEAK

boozed up dead to the world drunk as a skunk drunken feeling good feeling no pain groggy half in the bag half-crocked high hooched up juiced liquored up schnockered seeing double three sheets to the wind tipsy under the influence under-the-table woozy zonked

Example Sentences

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In the film, Kringle is Santa; while in New York for the Macy’s parade he finds the fake Santa, the actor set to play him, dead drunk and not up to the job.

From New York Times

But the colonel ended up dead drunk.

From Seattle Times

"He was dead drunk and could barely walk," a senior railway official is quoted as saying in The Hindu newspaper.

From BBC

A storm, attempted murders, witches, wizards, invisible spirits, revolutions, characters drinking until they’re dead drunk, an angry monster named Caliban—can you believe it?

From Literature

In “The Messenger,” he gives this account of one moment in his workday: “As I walked through the concourse of the RCA building, sneezing and reading Lawrence Durrell, dead drunk from the explosion of his words, I suddenly looked up and encountered the long face of Steven Rockefeller. He seemed startled. Doesn’t he think poor people read?”

From New York Times

dead drunk

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