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stoned
- /stəʊnd/ UK
- /stoʊnd/ US
Rhymes with -əʊnd
Where it comes from
From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed.
The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.
verb
- simple past and past participle of stone
adjective more stoned · most stoned
- Containing stones.
- Having had the stones removed.
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Drunk; intoxicated by alcohol.
STONED: drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world.
Similar: blotto, ebrious, paralytic, wasted, Adrian Quist, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, bedrunken
- High on drugs, especially cannabis. We got stoned and ate four bags of potato chips.
- Exhilarated; intoxicated by something (such as love) other than drugs or alcohol. "I am stoned on Jesus! He turns me on and gives me something drugs never could!"
Similar: baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out, fuckered up, fried, gassed, geeked, high, high as a kite, hepped up, hopped up, monged, munted, trolleyed, toasted, lifted, lit, off one's box, out of one's box, reefed, spaced-out, stoned, up there, wasted · Opposite: abstemious, clean, clearheaded, on the wagon, sober, sober as a judge, teetotal
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, hopped-up, plastered, frozen, freezing, hammered, smoked, doped, drugged, baked, squiffed, trashed, broken, high
adjective
Similar: baked, blazed, blitzed, blown, chemically impaired, chopped, cut, drugged, drugged-out, fuckered up, fried, gassed, geeked, high, high as a kite, hepped up, hopped up, monged, munted, trolleyed, toasted, lifted, lit, off one's box, out of one's box, reefed, spaced-out, stoned, up there, wasted · Opposite: abstemious, clean, clearheaded, on the wagon, sober, sober as a judge, teetotal
Translations
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adj high on drugs
| Español | colocado, marihuano, pacheco, emporrado, trabado |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 酔っ払った yopparatta, ぼうっとしている bōtto shite iru |
| 中文 | 神智恍惚 shénzhì huǎnghū |
| हिन्दी | नशा naśā |
| Português | chapado, doidão, pedrado, mocado, ganzado |
| Français | défoncé, déchiré, stone, gelé |
| Deutsch | bekifft, zu, breit |
| Italiano | fatto |
| Ελληνικά | μαστουρωμένος mastouroménos, κλασμένος klasménos |
| Русский | одуре́вший odurévšij, обку́ренный obkúrennyj, обко́лотый obkólotyj, обдо́лбанный obdólbannyj, под ка́йфом pod kájfom |
| Tiếng Việt | phê |
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