Alcoholic and Dry

Alcoholic

Alcoholic adjective - Characteristic of or containing alcohol.
Usage example: alcoholic drinks
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Synonyms for Alcoholic

Dry and alcoholic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Dry" instead an adjective "Alcoholic".

Nearby Words: alcohol, alcoholism

Dry

Dry adjective - Having a large proportion of strong liquor.
Usage example: a very dry martini is almost straight gin

Alcoholic and dry are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alcoholic" instead an adjective "Dry".

Nearby Words: drying, dryer, dryish

Mutual synonyms

How words are described

little little alcoholic little dry

Both words in one sentence

  • Royal Harem The alcoholic alien was briefly glad to discover that the country's dry laws didn't apply in the harem.
    Source: Royal Harem
  • Film / The Captain Hates the Sea Steve Bramley (John Gilbert) an alcoholic newspaperman and failed screenwriter who is taking the cruise in an effort to dry out and get started on a novel.
  • Prematurely Grey-Haired In A Fool There Was, The Vamp claws a loving husband and father away from his family, bleeds him dry, and leaves him an alcoholic mess.
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