stoned
adj.adj. feeling very relaxed or strange because of using a drug like marijuana. It is a casual word for being high.
adj. experiencing the physiological and psychological effects of a narcotic drug, particularly cannabis. Used predicatively after linking verbs like 'be', 'look', or 'get'.
They sat on the couch looking completely stoned.
He realized he was too stoned to drive home, so he decided to call a taxi instead.
The film captures that specific era of cinema where characters are often depicted as perpetually stoned, drifting through life with a detached and hazy perspective on their surroundings.
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.
Primarily used as a predicative adjective following a linking verb; rarely used attributively before a noun.