alcoholic

1. 1.

   a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

   Synonymsalkydipsomaniacboozerlushsoakersouse

   Broaderdrunkard

Other forms of alcoholic

plural

alcoholics·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about alcoholic

What does alcoholic mean?

alcoholic means "characteristic of or containing alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in alcoholic?

alcoholic has 4 syllables: al-co-ho-lic. The stress falls on "ho". In IPA it is /ˌælkəˈhɑlɪk/.

What is another word for alcoholic?

Close synonyms include alcohol-dependent, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of alcoholic?

The recorded antonyms are nonalcoholic.

Is alcoholic a common word?

alcoholic is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with alcoholic?

2 words rhyme with alcoholic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.