Synonyms of zonked

zonked

adjective

ˈzäŋ(k)t 

1

as in hooked

being under the influence of a recreational drug

later claimed that she was zonked for the entire recording session

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hooked
• ripped
• loaded
• wasted
• high
• bombed
• addicted
• stoned
• zonked-out
• blasted
• hopped-up
• blitzed
• wiped out
• spaced-out
• strung out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• sober
• clean
• temperate
• steady
• cool
• level
• abstemious
• abstinent
• clearheaded

2

as in dazed

suffering from mental confusion

her only living relative is a permanently zonked sister who can't even care for herself

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dazed
• bewildered
• confused
• distracted
• dizzy
• stunned
• out of it
• silly
• bemused
• stupefied
• fogged
• befuddled
• punch-drunk
• dopey
• addled
• spacey
• muddleheaded
• raddled
• punchy
• bushed
• at sea
• slaphappy
• mixed-up
• shell-shocked
• zonked-out
• muzzy
• pixilated
• befogged
• unconscious
• addle
• confounded
• bedeviled
• addlepated
• spaced-out
• senseless

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conscious
• clearheaded
• alert

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of zonked

Marla wears a stony expression, clearly too zonked to take in any of it. — Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025

After the Monkees split, Nesmith began his eccentric solo career, with amiably zonked records that were years ahead of their time. — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021

Only Andersson, the doyen of inaction movies, could offer beatitudes to the ineffectual and the zonked. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021

Most people take pre-workout for performance reasons or to simply feel better and less zonked when working out. — SELF, 27 Aug. 2020

And that's what an asphalt nation of zonked American teenagers did during the '80s. — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 8 Jan. 2020

But the overall effect of Gail Daughtry is to re-create the happily zonked university afternoons during which so many fans of my generation steeped ourselves in the elegant inanity of Wain’s output. — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

But the movie’s high point is a scene where Diane Varsi, playing the most zonked member of Max’s entourage (which includes a young Richard Pryor), addresses Congress as if from the stage of the Fillmore. — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2016