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adjective

ˈzäŋ(k)t-ˈau̇t How to pronounce zonked-out (audio)
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1
as in loaded
being under the influence of a recreational drug the perpetually zonked-out writer Hunter S. Thompson created the genre now known as gonzo journalism

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as in dazed
suffering from mental confusion overmedicated, zonked-out residents of a nursing home

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zonked (out)

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verb

past tense of zonk (out)
as in passed out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for zonked-out
  1. loaded
  2. dazed
  3. ripped
  4. bewildered
  5. high
  6. confused
  7. wasted
  8. distracted
Adjective
  • His loaded firearm was confiscated by police and his pickup was towed, but not before officers discovered what was inside.
    Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The politics of visibility are more loaded than ever.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
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  • One morning, the narrator wakes up late to see that a strangely dazed Yeong-hye has disposed of all their meat—pork belly, shabu-shabu beef, dumplings, eel.
    Ed Park, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2024
  • Tyson seems dazed and distracted, preoccupied with the sight of blood on his sleeve; Bodhi threatens to dissolve his partnership with Dwight and quit the business entirely.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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  • Some people might be getting to know Dustin Milligan thanks to his role as the ripped snowman in Hot Frosty, but Milligan has been a familiar face on TV for two decades.
    Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 19 Nov. 2024
  • For once, the entity piercing through The View's airspace was not a phantom noise, a doomed gnat, an unknown spectral entity, or Joy Behar's cell phone, but rather the thrusting pelvis of a ripped stripper.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Oct. 2024
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  • In this day and age, where 4K is normal, even HD is considered blurry; however, the decision to shoot with the prosumer camcorder at a resolution of 480 on to MiniDV paid off, and Murphy’s bewildered walk through Westminster is still genuinely iconic.
    Carlton Reid, WIRED, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There this brilliant but bewildered scientist gets cornered by a plutocrat with impertinent questions.
    Alan Scherstuhl, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
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  • But after visiting this slice of high desert (and subsequently moving here), my appreciation and fondness for the Southwest’s geological diversity, and that of Sedona’s upper Sonoran Desert region has only deepened.
    Erin Strout, Outside Online, 11 Nov. 2024
  • The higher the rank, the richer in rational points the curve will be.
    Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
Definition of high
Adjective
  • Though a human would probably be able to figure out how to escape from a random room, even a highly mobile robot would get confused and waste time looking for doors in nonsensical places like the floors and ceiling.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 20 Nov. 2024
  • The conversation left her confused and gutted — with dozens of questions that could take more than a year to resolve.
    Robert Anglen, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
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  • There is no wasted movement, and virtually everything seems to have a purpose.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • So cell-to-pack allows the module building blocks to be left out of a battery pack, meaning less wasted volume.
    Mark Andrews, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2022
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  • Grieving widows and parents across the country told them about the patchwork of laws against distracted driving, and the inconsistent citations or sentencing handed down to careless motorists.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2024
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in some ways itself a product of those concerns, both as a 36-years-later sequel and as a story about how Lydia has since stepped into the position of the distracted parent who’s unable to connect with their own moody child.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2024
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