drunkest

1. 1
   adjective

   Superlative of drunk.

   Of all the wedding guests, the groom's uncle was easily the drunkest.

   That stretch of bars left them the drunkest they had been all year.

   Note

   Comparison here takes the suffix, though the periphrastic most drunk is the alternative and both are accepted. The same spelling also belongs to the archaic thou-form of drink, so context decides which word you are reading: a thou in the sentence signals the verb, while a comparison among people or occasions signals the adjective.

2. 2
   verbarchaic

   Archaic second-person singular past tense of drink, used with thou.

   Note

   A verb form that only ever stands beside thou, as in thou drunkest from the well. The -est ending marks the second-person singular, and it fell out of use along with the thou paradigm, so the form now belongs to deliberately old-fashioned writing. With you as the subject the ending disappears, and using it there reads as an error rather than an archaism.

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