alcoholic

Adjective
  1. Characteristic of or containing alcohol (synset 301162103)
    "alcoholic drinks"
    similar to:
    • dry - having a large proportion of strong liquor
    • hard, strong - being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content
    • intoxicant, intoxicating - causing intoxication
    • spiritous, spirituous - containing or of the nature of alcohol
    • wet - consisting of or trading in alcoholic liquor
  2. Addicted to alcohol (synset 300047463)
    "alcoholic expatriates in Paris"
    similar to: addicted - compulsively or physiologically dependent on something habit-forming
    same as: alcohol-dependent
Noun
  1. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually (synset 109801608)
    is a type of: drunk, drunkard, inebriate, rummy, sot, wino - a chronic drinker
    same as: alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, lush, soaker, souse

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