alcoholic
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4.7
- adjective
- /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/
:
alcohólico
- He was an alcoholic and completely lost.
- an alcoholic person
- an alcoholic parent
- an alcoholic father
Or do you hire your out of work alcoholic sister-in-law?
- Or do you hire your out of work alcoholic sister-in-law?
- Oakland with my alcoholic fry cook boyfriend I had met in Olympia.
- And I grew up in a alcoholic family.
- But she had not just one kid, two kids in prison, alcoholic husband.
Examples
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I think an actual alcoholic literally has no control over it, like cannot stop.
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Randy lived on the corner with an older brother and an alcoholic mother.
Fiction book (1996) -
You strike me as the kind of alcoholic that will just keep holding on until you die.
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So I had one alcoholic who I was trying to use that to help him stop his drinking.
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So if I'm working with someone who is, let's say an alcoholic, the first step to change is acceptance.
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One man had been destitute and alcoholic, living on the street.
Fiction book (1998) -
I was neglecting myself, as my mother during her alcoholic years had neglected me.
Fiction book (1993) -
Lara has a baby and an alcoholic husband and has expressed a desire to go back to Turkey.
Academic text (2006) -
You know, he's he's an alcoholic, destroyed his life, destroyed his career.
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Many families struggle to support an alcoholic relative who refuses to seek help.
Synonyms
229
4.1
Unable to stop using drugs, alcohol or video games
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6.9
Addicted to a drug and unable to function without it
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5.8
Being unable to control drinking because you need alcohol
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A kind of memory loss caused by many years of heavy drinking that affects recent memories but not old ones
How Addicted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alcoholic as an adjective comes from the noun alcohol, via the old Arabic al-kuhl, and it came to describe people or problems caused by drinking too much. So calling something 'alcoholic' in this sense means it is 'caused by' or linked to alcohol use.