stoned

1. 1
   adjectiveslang

   Under the influence of drugs, especially cannabis.

   She showed up to the meeting visibly stoned and could barely focus.

   The two roommates were too stoned to remember where they parked.

   Similarhigh, baked, blazed, fried, geeked

   Oppositesober, straight

   Note

   A slang word for the cannabis haze. It usually comes after get or be: getting stoned, too stoned to remember. Songwriters have used it freely, from Jim Morrison, who in 1971 paired it with a word of religious purity, to Harry Chapin's "Taxi" (1972) and Porcupine Tree's "Normal" (2008). High is the plainer partner, and baked, blazed and fried are slangier still. Keep all of them out of formal writing.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of stone.

   The villagers stoned the accused man at dawn.

   Several windows were stoned during the riot.

   Note

   One regular -ed form covers every verb spelled stone, and those verbs pull far apart: a crowd stoned a man, a cook stoned cherries, a mason stoned up a doorway. The intoxicating verb usually appears in the passive, so "got stoned" or "was stoned" points toward the cannabis adjective. Middle English already had stoned, with an older participle, istoned, beside it.

3. 3
   adjective

   Having had the hard inner pits or seeds removed, as of certain fruits.

   Use stoned dates to keep the filling smooth and soft.

   The deli sells stoned green olives by the pound.

   Similarpitted

   Note

   A kitchen word built on the verb that takes a fruit's stone out. As a result, it means the reverse of "containing stones": stoned olives have no stones left. Dates, olives, cherries and plums are the usual nouns it describes. On a label or in a recipe, the food context keeps the meaning clear. In conversation, the drug meaning can intrude, so a speaker may prefer to name the fruit and its missing stones plainly.

4. 4
   adjective

   Containing stones or small rocks.

   The stoned riverbank made it hard to set up a tent.

   Erosion left the slope dry and stoned where soil had washed away.

   Similarstony, rocky, pebbly, gravelly

5. 5
   adjectiveslang

   Exhilarated or intoxicated by something other than drugs or alcohol, such as love.

   He wandered home from their first date stoned on happiness.

   The runners crossed the finish line stoned on adrenaline and cheers.

   Similarhigh, drunk, intoxicated, giddy, euphoric

   Note

   The drug high borrowed for joy, and it nearly always takes on: stoned on life, stoned on Jesus, stoned on love. The comparison stays in plain view. A speaker in John W. Drakeford's Children of Doom (1972) boasts of something "drugs never could" give. The phrase keeps the slang register of the cannabis sense, so save it for casual talk, where the drug meaning sits right behind the joke.

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