spirituous

1. 1.

   containing or of the nature of alcohol

   “spiritous beverages”

   “spirituous liquors”

   Synonymsspiritous

   Similaralcoholic

Questions about spirituous

What does spirituous mean?

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

How many syllables are in spirituous?

spirituous has 4 syllables and divides as spi-ri-tu-ous 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 spirituous?

Close synonyms include spiritous. 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.