Alcoholic
[ælkə'hɒlɪk] or [,ælkə'hɔlɪk]
Definition
(noun.) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.
(adj.) addicted to alcohol; 'alcoholic expatriates in Paris'- Carl Van Doren .
(adj.) characteristic of or containing alcohol; 'alcoholic drinks' .
Editor: Martin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
(n.) A person given to the use of alcoholic liquors.
(n.) Alcoholic liquors.
Inputed by Hubert
Examples
- These friends determined to make an effort to save him, and to do this they drew up a pledge to abstain from all alcoholic drinks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Diagram showing the amount of alcohol in some alcoholic drinks and in one much used patent medicine. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I felt that this was running hospitality into the ground, so I pulled them out and left them on the floor to cool off from their alcoholic trance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Lyle