intoxicant

1. 1.

   a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

   “alcohol (or drink) ruined him”

   Synonymsalcoholalcoholic drinkalcoholic beverageinebriant

   Broaderbeveragedrug of abuse

   Narrowerproof spirithome brewhoochkavaaperitifbrewsakenipawineliquor
2. 2.

   a drug that can produce a state of intoxication

   Broaderdrug

1. 1.

   causing intoxication

   “an intoxicating drink”

   Synonymsintoxicating

   Similaralcoholic

Other forms of intoxicant

plural

intoxicants·

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 intoxicant

What does intoxicant mean?

intoxicant means "a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intoxicant?

intoxicant has 4 syllables: in-tox-i-cant. The stress falls on "tox".

What is another word for intoxicant?

Close synonyms include alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, inebriant, intoxicating. 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.

Is intoxicant a common word?

intoxicant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.