zonedadj.
/zəʊnd/, U.S. /zoʊnd/ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > located in zone
zoned1662
1662 T. Stanley Hist. Chaldaick Philos. 4 Or else, by fiery Zone, he means the seat of the zoned Deities just above the Empyreal or corporeal Heaven.
2. Wearing a zone or girdle. Hence, virgin, chaste.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [adjective] > virginal
unknowna1382
maidena1400
untouchedc1400
undefiledc1450
virginal1483
indeflore?a1513
maidenly1530
undeflowereda1533
virginly1548
untwight1558
virgin1560
unravished1563
undeflore1568
unexperta1586
virgin-like1586
vestal1595
virgineous1607
virginian1613
unseduceda1616
indevirginate?1624
zoned1726
virgie1930
unlaid1962
society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [adjective] > chaste > of women
honesta1400
virtuousa1600
zoned1726
straight1893
tight-assed1903
1726 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiii. 142 Fair-zon'd damsels.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. ii. ix. 244 A zoned and untainted innocence.
3.
a. Characterized by or arranged (naturally) in zones, rings, or bands.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [adjective] > annular > characterized by or arranged in rings
zoned1794
zonal1873
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 435 The zoned or tabulated form of the onyx.
1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 208 A Crystal is..Zoned..when a row of facets is arranged around the middle part, thus forming a kind of zone or girdle. Example, Zoned calcareous-spar.
1845 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 4th Ser. 200 As a fifth source of variety [in wood] may be mentioned eyes, zoned spots, and curls.
b. Marked with zones, circles, or bands of colour.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > ring of colour > [adjective]
ring-straked1568
ring-streaked1647
ringled1776
zoned1792
ringly1800
zonated1803
ringy1843
zonate1866
hooped1898
1792 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 2) III. 433 Auricularia ferruginea,..zoned above.
1805 G. Shaw Vivarium Naturæ, or Naturalist’s Misc. XVI. pl. 657 The Zoned Parrot.
1849 W. H. Harvey Brit. Marine Algæ 121 Zoned tetraspores exist in Rhod[ymenia] ciliata.
1874 S. Birch 1st & 2nd Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 31 With side handles of zoned alabaster.
4.
a. Arranged according to zones or definite regions.
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the world > the universe > star > kind of star > by position > [adjective] > arranged according to zones
zoned1795
1795 W. Herschel in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 384 A zoned catalogue of the stars.
1890 A. M. Clerke Syst. Stars v. 80 The spectra of the great nebulæ, like those of the ‘zoned’ stars, must be considered as integrating the results of emanations taking their rise under notably diverse circumstances.
b. Distributed according to zones. Cf. zone v. 5.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > distributed according to zones
zoned1943
1943 Daily Express 16 Sept. 3/3 Compelling some grocers to buy their zoned cake through the co-ops.
5. Town Planning. Designated for a particular type of use or development. Originally U.S.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > [adjective] > of land: designated for particular use
zoned1921
downzoned1961
1921 Michigan Rep. 210 210 A penalty is provided for violation of said ordinance with a mandate prohibiting departments of the city from issuing permits for erection of the forbidden buildings within such zoned district.
1939 Florida: Guide to Southernmost State (Federal Writers' Project) iii. 396 Zoned residential, business, and industrial districts.
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 20/3 (advt.) Paarl shopping centre. On 11000 sq. ft., zoned special business with free car park..in fast developing area.
Draft additions July 2002
slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). [Perhaps influenced by ozoned adj., zonked adj., or stoned adj.; though compare spaced adj.] Also with out.
a. Of a person: intoxicated by drugs or alcohol; (in extended use) characteristic of a person in such a state; weird, offbeat, surreal. Cf. zonked adj. 1.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1971 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 6 11 Zoned, drunk.
1982 Time (Nexis) 4 Jan. 86 A well-turned hour of live, zoned-out comedy, which featured everything from Belushi to Bartok and raised the question, ‘Did the dinosaurs build Stonehenge?’.
1985 U.S. News & World Rep. 1 Apr. 68/2 A few are so doped they're zombies... You just about have to set a cherry bomb off under them to get their heads up because they're all zoned out.
1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes 332 He was zoned, hung over, and exhausted already, and the contemplation of sex brought only unbearable images that quenched any desire.
1991 Boston Globe 27 Dec. (Living section) 48/5 Peppered with howler cameos, ranging from Deborah Harry's metallic-beehive moan with a screeching nails-on-a-blackboard voice to Pia Zadora's zoned-out hippie.
1994 Movieline Jan. 88/2 Movies today can offer nothing to compare with the sight of sloe-eyed MM, stuffed into a skintight dress, lazily singing ‘Kiss’, as if she's zoned on downers.
2000 M. Hamid Moth Smoke xiii. 232 My mouth is dry and I'm zoned on hairy.
b. Of a person: exhausted, burnt out; unresponsive, detached. Cf. zonked adj. 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective]
wearyc825
asadc1306
ateyntc1325
attaintc1325
recrayed1340
methefula1350
for-wearya1375
matea1375
taintc1380
heavy1382
fortireda1400
methefula1400
afoundered?a1425
tewedc1440
travailedc1440
wearisomec1460
fatigate1471
defatigatec1487
tired1488
recreant1490
yolden?1507
fulyeit?a1513
traiked?a1513
tavert1535
wearied1538
fatigated1552
awearya1555
forwearied1562
overtired1567
spenta1568
done1575
awearied1577
stank1579
languishinga1586
bankrupt?1589
fordone1590
spent1591
overwearied1592
overworn1592
outworn1597
half-dead1601
back-broken1603
tiry1611
defatigated1612
dog-wearya1616
overweary1617
exhaust1621
worn-out1639
embossed1651
outspent1652
exhausted1667
beaten1681
bejaded1687
harassed1693
jaded1693
lassate1694
defeata1732
beat out1758
fagged1764
dog-tired1770
fessive1773
done-up1784
forjeskit1786
ramfeezled1786
done-over1789
fatigued1791
forfoughten1794
worn-up1812
dead1813
out-burnta1821
prostrate1820
dead beat1822
told out1822
bone-tireda1825
traiky1825
overfatigued1834
outwearied1837
done like (a) dinner1838
magged1839
used up1839
tuckered outc1840
drained1855
floored1857
weariful1862
wappered1868
bushed1870
bezzled1875
dead-beaten1875
down1885
tucked up1891
ready (or fit) to drop1892
buggered-up1893
ground-down1897
played1897
veal-bled1899
stove-up1901
trachled1910
ragged1912
beat up1914
done in1917
whacked1919
washy1922
pooped1928
shattered1930
punchy1932
shagged1932
shot1939
whipped1940
buggered1942
flaked (out)1942
fucked1949
sold-out1958
wiped1958
burnt out1959
wrung out1962
juiced1965
hanging1971
zonked1972
maxed1978
raddled1978
zoned1980
cream crackered1983
1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 223/2 Zoned,..blitzed, exhausted, burned out.
1981 Daily Tel. 20 Feb. 17/2 Parents are quick to imitate their young and can be heard to exclaim they are ‘really psyched’ (carried away) or perhaps ‘zoned’ (exhausted).
1988 Sun (Brisbane) 30 Nov. (Comics section) 41 You're zoned, Dad... It means you'll never be up on the current slang.
1993 H. Stern Private Parts vi. 191 I've asked Bob Hope questions nobody else would..and there's no way of telling if he's just avoided answering them or he's too zoned out to understand.
1996 G. Scott Can we Talk? ix. 223 As a result, a growing concern was that we were in danger of becoming a nation of zoned-out ‘couch potatoes’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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