Use opposite and the opposite of only when you mean that two things are altogether different in nature, quality, or significance: ‘I thought that the medicine would make him sleepy, but it had the opposite effect.’ ‘The opposite of long is short.’ ‘T (...)

Drunken is rarely used to describe a person. It usually describes an action or event: ‘drunken driving’, ‘drunken laughter’, ‘a drunken brawl’, ‘a drunken orgy’, Drunken always comes before a noun. To describe a person, use drunk (NOT drunken): ‘I th (...)