nondrinker

Questions about nondrinker

What does nondrinker mean?

nondrinker means "a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages".

How many syllables are in nondrinker?

nondrinker has 3 syllables and divides as non-drin-ker under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nondrinker?

Close synonyms include abstainer, abstinent. 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 nondrinker?

The recorded antonyms are drinker.

Is nondrinker a common word?

nondrinker 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.