What's the difference between bacchanal and drunken?

Bacchanal


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival.
  • (a.) Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.
  • (n.) A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.
  • (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.
  • (n.) Drunken revelry; an orgy.
  • (n.) A song or dance in honor of Bacchus.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What happened during this once-in-a-lifetime bacchanal?
  • (2) Debauchery Stratton Oakmont's profits fund a bacchanal: cars, drugs, women who are exactly as disposable as the cars and drugs, and antics that veer from Jackass territory into hazing rituals.
  • (3) The story ricocheted around blogs and news sites illustrated with images of bare-chested, bikini-clad bacchanals around the Yucatan peninsula.
  • (4) Korine set up fiestas of his own in party hotels where no one had slept in a week, or just affixed his cast and story to bacchanals already long in progress.
  • (5) It’s the start of the trade-show-meets-tropical-bacchanal that is Art Basel Miami Beach .
  • (6) For a DJ who presided over some notorious bacchanals – he first came to prominence in the mid-70s, playing alongside his best friend Larry Levan at New York's infamous Continental Baths, a club with steam rooms, pool and private apartments that one patron described as most closely resembling "an orgy" with added music – and who began his nightclub career as a gopher employed to hand out LSD to dancers at a disco called The Gallery, he could be curiously puritanical.
  • (7) The whole work is crammed and crowded with the Dadd mixture of intricate plant life and small figures on all scales – a miniature bacchanal with satyrs, and a dead deer on a pole that rushes along above Titania's head.

Drunken


Definition:

  • () of Drink
  • (v. i.) Overcome by strong drink; intoxicated by, or as by, spirituous liquor; inebriated.
  • (v. i.) Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched.
  • (v. i.) Pertaining to, or proceeding from, intoxication.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Men in a halfway-house sample had more detoxication readmissions but fewer drunkenness arrests in a 3-month follow-up period than did their matched controls; the total number of documented drunkenness episodes did not differ in the two groups.
  • (2) In terms of attitudes towards drunkenness, however, differences between the two groups are slight.
  • (3) It is London not the provinces that is drunkenly dependent on public money.
  • (4) Twenty-nine subjects were interviewed and asked to think aloud their responses to four alcohol items: frequency of drinking, average quantity, frequency of drinking over 5 drinks, and frequency of drunkenness.
  • (5) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
  • (6) Offenders admitted to the 14-day program were significantly less likely to be rearrested for drunken driving (10 vs 20%).
  • (7) Page, an army veteran whose record was marred by drunkenness and a failure to report for duty, walked into the temple just before 10.30am and opened fire with a 9mm pistol.
  • (8) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
  • (9) According to a footnote of the directions for driver selection tests ("Eignungsrichtlinien") of December 1, 1982, a medical and psychological examination can be disposed also with first drunkenness offenders.
  • (10) ( Glenn Willis ) ‘Often the people who have the least are the most generous’ I’ve slept rough in London twice having drunkenly missed my last train home.
  • (11) Perry said Lehmberg, who is based in Austin, should resign after she was arrested and pleaded guilty to drunken driving in April 2013.
  • (12) Gordon Brown's speech played deliberately and directly to the very real fears of many of those people, whether on drunken louts in the high street or teenage mums or financial insecurity, but the paper ignores all that and lands the blow it has been planning for months.
  • (13) Maybe the movie ends with the rainbow promise and a drunken I Will Survive party.
  • (14) Employees accessed Chaffetz’s 2003 application for a secret service job starting 18 minutes after the start of a congressional hearing in March about the latest scandal involving drunken behavior by senior agents.
  • (15) In comparison only 34.5% were judged highly drunken on medical examination.
  • (16) Recorded criminal offence, receipt of public assistance, and conviction for drunkenness usually appeared later.
  • (17) A hitherto unpublished report on the flight of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess – two prominent members of the Cambridge spy ring – more than 60 years ago, says they could have been suspected sooner had the Foreign Office linked their bouts of extreme drunken behaviour to their spying.
  • (18) Premeditated murders are also rare in Finland (roughly 40 per year), but homicides sadly occur out of quarrels between socially marginalised drunken adult men.
  • (19) Worst of times Losing the Olympic 800m to great rival Steve Ovett in 1980; being falsely accused in the tabloid press of drunken behaviour in 1984 (he went on to win an out-of-court settlement).
  • (20) The catalogue of blunders produced an angry response from congressmen in both parties who questioned the competence of Pierson, who was herself brought in to clean up the elite unit after earlier scandals in which drunken officers were found passed out during a presidential trip to Amsterdam and visiting prostitutes in Colombia.