spiritous

1. 1.

   containing or of the nature of alcohol

   “spiritous beverages”

   “spirituous liquors”

   Synonymsspirituous

   Similaralcoholic

Questions about spiritous

What does spiritous mean?

spiritous means "containing or of the nature of alcohol".

How many syllables are in spiritous?

spiritous has 3 syllables: spi-ri-tous. The stress falls on "spi".

What is another word for spiritous?

Close synonyms include spirituous. 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 spiritous a common word?

spiritous 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.