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unintoxicated

unintoxicated

6.7
Not affected by alcohol or drugs
  • adjective
  • /ˌʌnɪnˈtɑːksɪkeɪtɪd/
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  • After a night of careful moderation, he felt unintoxicated and ready to drive home safely.

Examples

  • It is important to remain unintoxicated while participating in the driving test.

  • When the loose but gifted Byron lay in his Venetian exile, he observed that, if it could be granted him to go back and live his misspent life over again, he would give his lucid and unintoxicated intervals to the composition, not of frivolous rhymes, but of essays upon political economy.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • She was completely unintoxicated after drinking only water all night.

Synonyms

sober
vsunintoxicated
269 3.2

Not having drunk alcohol or taken drugs

is limited to lack of effect from alcohol or drugs
cold sober
vsunintoxicated
  • Informal
4 6.2

Completely free of alcohol or drugs

is the same lack of influence but may not stress total completeness
stone-sober
vsunintoxicated
  • Informal
1 6.9

Shows no signs of being drunk

covers both alcohol and drugs without stressing absolute absence
uninebriated
vsunintoxicated
7.8

A person who is not affected by alcohol

includes both alcohol and drugs, not only alcohol
unsmashed
vsunintoxicated
  • Slang
8.8

Not drunk or affected by alcohol

includes both alcohol and drugs, not limited to alcohol
unfried
vsunintoxicated
  • Slang
8.8

Alert and not tired or drunk

focuses only on absence of chemical influence, not general mental alertness
undrunk
vsunintoxicated
8.5

Not consumed as a drink or not affected by alcohol

means absence of alcohol or drug effects, not lack of consumption

Antonyms

44 4.2

Unable to control your actions because of alcohol or drugs

How Intoxicated

wasted
  • NSFW
8.4
drunk
1.6
tipsy
  • Informal
18 4.8
unintoxicated
6.7

Surface Forms

unintoxicated positive

Morphology

unintoxicated = intoxicated (transparent) = un + intoxicate + ed

A straightforward negation formed by adding 'un-' to 'intoxicated', meaning 'not intoxicated'.

Etymology

Unintoxicated is built from un- meaning 'not' and toxic meaning 'poison'. So it literally means 'not poisoned', which is why we use it for someone who is not affected by alcohol or drugs.