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 and divides as spi-ri-tous 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 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.