drunker
- 1Comparative of drunk.
By midnight he was drunker than anyone else still standing at the bar.
The longer the reception went on, the drunker the guests became.
Note
A one-syllable adjective that takes the ordinary -er ending, with more drunk as an equally correct alternative. It measures degrees of intoxication, and it can stretch to the figurative drunk of elation: drunker on success than on wine. Only the adjective compares. The noun (a drunk) and the adverb (while drunk) have no drunker. It sits naturally in the paired pattern the longer…, the drunker….
drunker is a form of drunk
drunk, adjective: Mentally or physically impaired by drinking too much alcohol, either on a particular occasion or habitually. Full entry
- Spelling
- drunk → drunker: add -er
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