drunken

Preposition: in

night: For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

Modifies a noun

• stupor: Ben Jonson is awakened from his drunken stupor by a herd of wildebeest falling down the stairs.
• yob: We have drunken yobs like the best of ' em.
• brawl: A full scale drunken brawl was in progress, no doubt.
• lout: The force of the throw sent the vamp spinning into three drunken louts walking by.
• reveler: Police are also bracing themselves for hordes of drunken revelers.
• antic: Many affairs have begun due to drunken antics at an office party.

Modifying Another Word

• slightly: Lots of support coming from a slightly drunken granddad - which was ace!
• very: Not much sign of them the night we were there, just a lot of very drunken Scots.
• not: The word Amethyst comes from Greek and means " not drunken " .
• even: When there is work to be done even drunken, turbulent or negligent men are given employment if they have the requisite physical vigor.
• just: Gap years can be about more than just drunken nights out and shrinking bank accounts.
• so: O Shamsi Tabriz, I am so drunken in this world, That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to tell.

Used with adjective complement

have: You are less co-ordinated and can have slurred speech when you have drunken on average 4 pints.