INTOXICANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intoxicant mean? 

• INTOXICANT (noun)
  The noun INTOXICANT has 2 senses:

1. a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

2. a drug that can produce a state of intoxication

  Familiarity information: INTOXICANT used as a noun is rare.

• INTOXICANT (adjective)
  The adjective INTOXICANT has 1 sense:

1. causing intoxication

  Familiarity information: INTOXICANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTOXICANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

alcohol; alcoholic beverage; alcoholic drink; inebriant; intoxicant

Context example:

alcohol (or drink) ruined him

Hypernyms ("intoxicant" is a kind of...):

drug of abuse; street drug (a drug that is taken for nonmedicinal reasons (usually for mind-altering effects); drug abuse can lead to physical and mental damage and (with some substances) dependence and addiction)

beverage; drink; drinkable; potable (any liquid suitable for drinking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "intoxicant"):

booze; hard drink; hard liquor; John Barleycorn; liquor; spirits; strong drink (an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented)

koumiss; kumis (an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia)

slug (an amount of an alcoholic drink (usually liquor) that is poured or gulped)

rotgut (any alcoholic beverage of inferior quality)

perry (a fermented and often effervescent beverage made from juice of pears; similar in taste to hard cider)

hard cider (alcoholic drink from fermented cider; 'cider' and 'cyder' are European (especially British) usages for the fermented beverage)

mixed drink (made of two or more ingredients)

cordial; liqueur (strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal)

pulque (fermented Mexican drink from juice of various agave plants especially the maguey)

ethyl alcohol; neutral spirits (nonflavored alcohol of 95 percent or 190 proof used for blending with straight whiskies and in making gin and liqueurs)

proof spirit (a mixture containing half alcohol by volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit)

vino; wine (fermented juice (of grapes especially))

nipa (made from sap of the Australasian nipa palm)

rice beer; sake; saki (Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot)

brew; brewage (drink made by steeping and boiling and fermenting rather than distilling)

aperitif (alcoholic beverage taken before a meal as an appetizer)

kava; kavakava (an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub)

hooch; hootch (an illicitly distilled (and usually inferior) alcoholic liquor)

home brew; homebrew (an alcoholic beverage (especially beer) made at home)

Derivation:

intoxicate (make drunk (with alcoholic drinks))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A drug that can produce a state of intoxication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("intoxicant" is a kind of...):

drug (a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic)

Derivation:

intoxicate (have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug)

• INTOXICANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Causing intoxication

Synonyms:

intoxicant; intoxicating

Context example:

an intoxicating drink

Similar:

alcoholic (characteristic of or containing alcohol)

Derivation:

intoxicate (have an intoxicating effect on, of a drug)