neutral spirits

1. 1.

   nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs

   Synonymsethyl alcohol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about neutral spirits

What does neutral spirits mean?

neutral spirits means "nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs".

What is another word for neutral spirits?

Close synonyms include ethyl alcohol. 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 neutral spirits a common word?

neutral spirits 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.