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Definition: Intoxicant |
IntoxicantAdjective1. Able to intoxicate. Noun1. A liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him". 2. A drug that can produce a state of intoxication. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "intoxicant" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: IntoxicantSynonyms: intoxicating (adj), alcohol (n), alcoholic beverage (n), drink (n), inebriant (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Intoxicant |
| English words defined with "intoxicant": Picrotoxin. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "intoxicant": Ethylene Dichlorides. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Intoxicant" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Intoxicant" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
intoxicant | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "intoxicant"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pije dehëse. (various references) | |
Arabic | مسكر (candied, glace, heady, inebriant, spirit, sugared, sweetened), سكر (candy, conserve, fluster, get drunk, liquor, sloshed, souse, sugar, sweeten, take to drink, tank up), سام مسم, شراب مسكر (boose, booze, brandy, champagne, drink, drinking, inebriant, medicine, nappy, peg, pot, rum). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | упоително средство (opiate), упоителен (anaesthetic, anesthetic, heady, knockout), опияняващ, алкохолно питие (juice). (various references) | |
Czech | opojný nápoj, alkohol (alcohol, booze, drink, liquor). (various references) | |
Farsi | مکیف , مسکر, مستی اور. (various references) | |
Finnish | väkijuoma, juovutusjuoma. (various references) | |
French | toxique, grisant, enivrant (intoxicating), boisson alcoolique (inebriant). (various references) | |
German | berauschend (befuddling, exhilarated, exhilarating, fuddling, heady, inebriating, intoxicantly, intoxicating, intoxicative). (various references) | |
Greek | μεθυστικόσ (heady, intoxicating), οινοπνευματώδεσ ποτό (brandy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משכר (heady, inebriating, intoxicating), רעיל (poisonous, toxic). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szeszes ital (alcoholic drink, boose, booze, bouse, drink, hard liquor, likker, liquor, lush, rum, spirit, tiddly, tipple), mámorító (ecstatic, heady). (various references) | |
Indonesian | minuman keras (booze, brandy, cocktail, liquor). (various references) | |
Italian | inebriante. (various references) | |
Manx | meshtallagh (boozer, drunk, inebriate, intoxicating, promiscuity), jough vestallagh. (various references) | |
Norwegian | rusmiddel. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | intoxicantay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | inebriante (heady), tóxico (noxious, poison, poisonous, toxic, toxicant), embriagante, bebida alcoólica (alcoholic drink, boose, booze, liquor, lotion, pick-me-up, stimulant, strong drink), alcoólico (alcoholic, dipsomaniac, dram-drinker, drinker, drunkard, spirituous), agente tóxico, álcool (alcohol, spirit). (various references) | |
Romanian | bãuturã alcoolicã (hootch), îmbãtãtor (heady, intoxicating). (various references) | |
Russian | опьяняющий напиток. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | opojno sredstvo (narcotic), opojni (intoxicating). (various references) | |
Spanish | embriagador (heady, intoxicating). (various references) | |
Swedish | rusdryck, rusande (flit, heady, rampageous, scud, scurry, scuttle), berusningsmedel. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarhoş edici içki, sarhoş edici. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | п'янкий напій, п'янкий (intoxicating, winy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | l m say (inebriant), chất l m say (inebriant). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "intoxicant": intoxicants. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "intoxicant": nonintoxicant. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "intoxicant" (pronounced 'In*tox"i*cant'): Albicant, Alicant, Applicant, Candicant, Claudicant, Complicant, Consignificant, Contraindicant, Coruscant, Cosecant, Decant, Fruticant, impeccant, insignificant, Mordicant, Mundificant, Outcant, Precant, Prejudicant, Radicant, Replicant, toxicant, Unsignificant, vacant, Vesicant. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-n-o-t-t-x" | |
-1 letter: antitoxic, antitoxin. | |
-2 letters: citation, inaction, incitant, toxicant. | |
-3 letters: actinon, anionic, contain, nicotin, taction, taxitic, titanic. | |
-4 letters: action, anoint, anoxic, atonic, axonic, cannot, canton, cation, incant, intact, nation, niacin, nontax, octant, otitic, tannic, titian. | |
-5 letters: acini, actin, ancon, anion, antic, attic, axion, canon, canto, coati, conin, cotan, cotta, inion, ionic, niton, octan, ontic, tacit, taint, tanto. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-n-o-t-t-x" | |
+1 letter: intoxicants. | |
+2 letters: intoxicating, intoxication. | |
+3 letters: intoxications, nonintoxicant. | |
+5 letters: contextualizing, disintoxicating, disintoxication, nonintoxicating. | |
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