What is "alcoholic" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What is "alcoholic" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "alcoholic": a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

Noun

  • Meaning: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
  • Synonyms: alcoholic alky boozer dipsomaniac lush soaker souse
  • Hypernyms: drunk drunkard inebriate rummy sot wino
  • Meaning of "alcoholic": characteristic of or containing alcohol

    Adjective

  • Meaning: characteristic of or containing alcohol
  • Example: alcoholic drinks
  • Synonyms: alcoholic
  • Antonyms: nonalcoholic
  • Similar: dry hard intoxicant intoxicating spiritous spirituous strong wet
  • Meaning of "alcoholic": addicted to alcohol

    Adjective

  • Meaning: addicted to alcohol
  • Example: alcoholic expatriates in Paris
  • Synonyms: alcohol-dependent alcoholic
  • Similar: addicted
  • Adjective: A person addicted to alcohol. Starsailor - Alcoholic Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes Daddy was an alcoholic 2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:  Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.Starsailor - Alcoholic Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes Daddy was an alcoholic2013 June 28, Joris Luyendijk, “Our banks are out of control”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 21:  Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.One who abuses alcohol.
  • Synonyms:

    hard, fermented, inebriant, brewed, distilled, inebriating, sprituous, vinous, souse, tippler, lush, inebriate, boozer, wino, sot, problem drinker, substance abuser, dipsomaniac, bar fly, hard drinker,

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    alcoholic in English: alcoholic
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