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zonked

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /zɒŋkt/
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  • rhymes with -ɒŋkt

1

adj

Meaning 1

Extremely fatigued.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Examples

  • After eighteen hours of proofreading, I was completely zonked.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: knackered, weary, bleareyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bone-tired, bushed, tired out, spent, wrecked, drained, dog-tired, dog-weary, exhausted, fatigued, forfairn, forlagen, forworn, heavyeyed, jaded, languid, enervated, out of gas, played out, run-down, shattered, shot, sleepy, stuffed, tired, washed out, weariful, whacked, whipped, worn, worn out, banjaxed, beat, buggered, busted, dead tired, cream crackered, done, done in, done up, fagged out, fried, fucked, gassed, jiggered, Kerry Packered, knacked, nadgered, pooped, pooped out, pumped, shagged, shagged out, tuckered, tuckered out, wappened, zonked

Antonyms: none provided

2

adj

Meaning 2

Deeply asleep.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

Examples

  • I must have been really zonked. They said it took fifteen minutes to wake me up.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: dead asleep, fast asleep, asleep, cold, comatose, dead to the world, dormant, down for the count, in the arms of Morpheus, in the arms of Murphy, nangry, out cold, out like a light, sacked out, sleepbound, sleeping, somnambular, unawakening, unawaking, unwaking

Antonyms: none provided

3

adj

Meaning 3

Drunk; intoxicated.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: boozy, inebriated, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, binned, bingoed, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, bosky, bottled, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, clobbered, corned, cocked, cockeyed, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, dead drunk, destroyed, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, feeling no pain, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half polluted, half cut, half lit, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, high, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, inebriate, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kettled, kisky, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mabok, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, monged, mortal, mortalled, Mozart and Liszt, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, MWI, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, Oliver, Oliver Twist, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, raddled, ratfaced, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, soshed, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight as a tick, tight, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English zonk Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh2tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English zonked From zonk + -ed.

Across languages

Translations

7 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: مُرْهَق لِلْغَايَة (murhaq li-l-ḡāya) — slang: extremely fatigued
  • Dutch: uitgeput — slang: extremely fatigued
  • Dutch: afgemat — slang: extremely fatigued
  • Dutch: op — slang: extremely fatigued
  • French: crevé — slang: extremely fatigued
  • Italian: distrutto — slang: extremely fatigued
  • Arabic: نَائِماً بِعُمْق (nāʔiman biʕumq) — slang: deeply asleep